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Title:Highland widow's lament, The
Tune:`4bB/bBbBA8AA/4GG4.F``8D/4.D8C4C8DF/2G4F/   (Plaine and Easie code)
 notation
Plaine and Easie code beginning on C: ``4C/CC`B8BB/4AA4.G``8E/4.E8D4D8EG/2A4G/

 
Listen:MP3
Key signature:bBE
Time Signature:4/4
Length (no. of bars):8
Verses and lines:8 x 4
Bibliographic references: Johnson, J. Scots MM V, p.514, no.498 [1796]
Smith, R. A. Scotish Minstrel II, p.70 [1821]
Related names: Johnson, James, ca.1750-1811.
Smith, Robert Archibald, 1780-1829.
Versions: Song title:   The Highland widow's lament
First words:   O I am come to the low countrie
References:   Johnson, J. Scots MM V, p.514, no.498 [1796] ; Johnson, J. Scots MM V, p.514, no.498 [1796] ; Smith, R. A. Scotish Minstrel II, p.70 [1821] ;

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