Key: D
Form: Slow air (6/8)
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Sheet Music in PDF: Niel Gow’s Lament For His Second Wife
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X:14007 T:Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife T:Neil Gow's Lament R:Air C:Niel Gow 1805 O:Scotland Z:Paul Hardy's Session Tunebook 2025 (see www.pghardy.net). Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA licenced. M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:3/8=40 K:D D/B,/|"D"A,>B,D "Bm"D>ED|"A"EFA "G"B2 d/B/|"D"A>FD "Em"E>DE|"Bm"FDB, "G"B,2 D/B,/| "D"A,>B,D "Bm"D>ED|"A"EFA "G"d2 c/B/|"D"A>FD "Bm"B,2 A,|"G"B,DD "D"D2:| (3A/B/c/|"D"d>fd "A"ecA|"G"B/A/B/c/d "Em"B/A/G/F/E/<D/|"A"E2 D/E/ "D"F>ED|"Bm"FDB, "G"B,2 (3A/B/c/| "D"d>af "A"ec>A|"G"B/A/B/c/d "Em"B/A/G/F/E/<D/|"A"E2 D/E/ "Bm"F>DB,|"G"A,B,D "D"D2 (3A/B/c/| "D"d>fd "A"ec>A|"G"B/A/B/c/d "Em"B/A/G/F/E/<D/|"D"F/D/A/F/d/A/ "G"B/A/G/F/E//D3/4|"D"F2E "A7"E>DB,| "D"A,>B,D "Bm"D3/2E/D|"Em"EFA "G"d>cB|"D"A>FD "Bm"B,2 A,|"G"B,DD "D"D2|]
YouTube:
Source: Neil Gow, 1805
Genre/Style: Scottish slow air or lament
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Region: Scotland
Notes: From the description on the above YouTube, “Niel Gow (1727–1807) was the most famous Scottish fiddler of the eighteenth century. He married twice. After his first wife died Niel married Margaret Urquhart from Perth in 1768, and they went on to share a happy marriage until she died in 1805. “