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T:Flora MacDonald's Lament
T:Flodgary
Z:Webmaster
C:Trad
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
Q:"Slow with Expression" 1/4=100
N:"This beautiful Jacobite Air is published separately as a Song,
N:words by the Errick Shepherd."  (i.e. James Hogg)
B:Gow - Sixth Collection of Strathspey Reels (1822)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:A
E|A>GA (FG)A|(Bd)(c/B/) AGE|c>BA (E<d)c|(c/B/)A~G A2E|
{G}A>GA (FGA)|(Bd)(c/B/) AGE|cBA (E<d)c|(c/B/)A~G A2||E|
A>(Bc/d/) (ec).A|.E(Ec) (dB)G|(Ac)e ~e>dc|B<cd (dc)B|
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~e>fe (dcB)|e>cA (GF)E|A>GF (Ed).c|(c/B/)A~G A2||
W:
W:ch
W:Green is Flodgary, blue is the sea, 
W:Born here the lassie tae guide oor Prince free. 
W:
W:1 
W:Westward the wild wind, high runs the sea, 
W:Heaving the shallop by Broad Lea Eig Bay. 
W:I have but one love; lass, trim the sail, 
W:Run in behind us, loyalty as well. 
W:
W:2 
W:Come ye young Ramsay, hold fast the helm, 
W:The Long Ship is heavin' by Loch Scavaig Bay, 
W:Come wi' me lassie turn ye not hame, 
W:Come where the west wind is kind tae its ane. 
W:
W:3 
W:Pull hard my heroes the eagle tae flee,  
W:Doon by Loch Yuma the Tall Ship runs free,  
W:Flora was taken doon by Portree, 
W:Bound for the tower and maybe tae dee.

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