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Thread #38159   Message #3067322
Posted By: Jack Campin
04-Jan-11 - 06:29 PM
Thread Name: Oro Se Do Bheatha Bhaile
Subject: RE: Oro Se Do Bheatha Bhaile
This remind anybody of anything?

X:2
T:Johnie Cope
C:Charles Maclean
Z:Jack Campin: "Embro, Embro", transcription (c) 2001
F:16army/abc/JCopeMcV.abc
S:Charles Maclean, Collection of Favourite Scots Tunes, pub. Neil Stewart, c.1770
M:C|
L:1/16
K:G Minor
G4 (TG2FG) A2G2 (AG)(FD)|F4    F3G       A2GF F2A2|
G4 (TG2FG) A2F2   G2D2   |F2C2 (DC)(B,A,) G,4   G,4:|


It's part of a variation set on "Johnny Cope" composed not long after the song first appeared (early 1750s). The resemblance to "Oro se" seems too strong to be coincidence. (Slightly less close to "Drunken sailor").