Blue Bonnets (Lesley's march to Scotland)

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17th century tune, known as "Lesley's march to Scotland" Published in Watt's Musical Miscellany 1731, and Oswald 1755. Sir Walter Scott wrote the song "Blue Bonnets over the Border" to this tune.

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X: 4
P: Blue Bonnets (Lesley's march to Scotland)
R: jig, march
B: RSCDS 3-5
Z: 1997 by John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: 17th century tune, known as "Lesley's march to Scotland" Published in Watt's Musical Miscellany
N: 1731, and Oswald 1755.  Sir Walter Scott wrote the song "Blue Bonnets over the Border" to this tune.
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: A
E \
|: "A"A3 "D"A3 | "A"AcB A2E | "D"AFF F2e | "Fm"fec "E7"B>cB \
|  "A"A3 "D"A3 | "A"AcB A2E | "D"A>GF "A"E2E | "Fm"FAc "E7"B2A :|
|: "A"A>ce ecA | "D"fec "A"cBA | "A"A>ce "Fm"fga | "Bm"A>Bc "E7"B2A \
|  "A"A>ce ecA | "D"fec "A"cBA | "D"A>GF  "A"E2E | "Fm"FAc  "E7"B2"(A)"A :|

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• http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Scotland/KendallsHornpipe.abc