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Cawdor Fair has some antiquity; when Niel Gow published it in his 1799 collection, it was marked as being "very old". Older names fore the tune include Cockabendie and The Hawthorn Tree of Cawdor, but a lot of people will associate the melody with the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence. The second tune is adapted from a 'puirt-a-beul' (Gaelic mouth music) song called An Gille Donn ‘s a’ Bhanarach (The Brown-Haired Lad and the Milkmaid), published in a collection from 1901.
This set and other tunes played at Scottish Sessions can be found in The Glasgow Slow Session Volume 1, available from my Online Store.
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