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Thread #9608   Message #779198
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
08-Sep-02 - 03:54 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Ballad of Glencoe / Massacre of Glencoe
Subject: RE: Ballad of Glencoe / Massacre of Glencoe
Here is the Massacre of Glencoe tune from Greig-Duncan. I can't for the life of me find a comfortable way of fitting the text without extensive modification; see what you think.

X:1
T:The Massacre of Glencoe.
S:Noted by J.B. Duncan from Margaret Gillespie, Aberdeenshire, 1905.
B:The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, vol.1 no.115, 1981.
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
M:4/4
K:D
A2 B3/ F/ B2 A3/ F/|E2 D3/ D/ D2 A2|d2 d3/ f/ (eg) f3/ e/|
d2 (3(dc) B A2 A2|d2 d3/ f/ (eg) f3/ e/|d2 (3(dc) B A2 A2|
(BA) d F B2 A3/ F/|E2 D3/ D/ D2 z2|]