Key: Ador
Form: Reel
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Sheet Music in PDF: Da Floating Gin Palaces of Lerwick with Chords
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X:1 T:Da Floating Gin Palaces of Lerwick R:Reel S: Dominique Renaudin tradtunes 2008-4-22 M:C| K:A dorian |: e2ed efge | dBAB d2Bd | efge a2fg | edBG A2A2 :| |: a2ea agef | a2ea gedB | a2ea agdf | gedB A2A2 :|
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Source: Trad.*
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Other Tunes in Set: Jack Broke da Prison Door
Region: Shetland
*Notes: Do you knoow an authoritative account of the meaning of this tune’s title? Please contribute.
All I could find with a Google search was this from Shetland.org: “It’s well known that Lerwick grew under an umbrella of illicit trade in gin, brandy and tobacco and that smugglers founded the town.”