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Piano.
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Andante, con espressione.
Air: " Fair Helen of Kirkconnel."
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1. nicht and day
2. wise the gun
3. see her lie
4. mak' a gar
On me scho
That ga'e the
And speak na
land o' thy
cries,
crack,
mair!
hair,
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Fair
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1. Ee - lin lies,
2. arms scho lap,
3. mic - kle care,
4. ev - er - mair.
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On
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fair
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Kirk
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love
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* We Rive Charles Kirkpatriok Sharpe's version of the melody. He considered it to be the genuine old Annandale tune. The tragedy of
' Fair Helen " is too well known to repeat here ; an interesting account of it is given in the Museum, Additional Illustrations, p. 208*.