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Thread #123700 Message #2726129
Posted By: Dave Ruch
18-Sep-09 - 01:31 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Burns' Farewell
Subject: Burns' Farewell as a song air?
Henry Backus, also known as "The Saugerties Bard", was an itinerant NY ballad maker and seller in the 19th century. Several of the broadsides he wrote and distributed were to be sung to the tune of "Burns' Farewell".
I've found a version of this air as printed in O'Neill's Music of Ireland, but it's a two-part dance tune with an AABB format.
Does anyone know what tune Backus may have been referring to?