Drover Lads (The Drover’s Lads)

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Key: G

Form: Four-part Jig

ABC:

X: 1
T:Drover Lads, The
T:Gillan An Drover
B:Kerr's Merry Melodies, Book 3
Z:Nigel Gatherer
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:G
B|GBd g2 B|agf g2 e|dBB B2 e|dBB B2 A|GBd g2 d|agf g2 e|
dBA A2 e|dBA A2::B|GBG dBd|ege dBG|dBB B2 e|
dBB B2 A|GBG dBd|ege dBG|dBA A2 e|dBA A2:|]

MP3: (Played by Gina Fehr)

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Youtube: (The song in sung in Gaelic.)

(Played on the fiddle by Johnny Cunningham)

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Drover

Source: Trad.

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Region: Scotland

Notes: We jokingly refer to this as a Scottish Australian cowboy tune.