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Thread #54274   Message #3144814
Posted By: Jack Campin
29-Apr-11 - 01:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Gloomy Winter's Now Awa (Dougie MacLean)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gloomy Winter's Now Awa (Dougie MacLean)
The tune was originally the guild march of the Corporation of Tailors (probably of Edinburgh, if they differed between cities), published by James Aird in Glasgow in 1781. See my discussion here:

Embro, Embro: tunes about work

My favourite version is Daniel MacLaren's strathspey (which also predates Smith and Tannahill) - not very singable.