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T: Cadgers of the Canongate
O: Trad Scotland
R: Strathspey, Fling or Reel
B: Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, v.1 (London, 1757)
B: Robert Bremner's collection (1757, pg. 51)
F: http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/CA_CAIS.htm
N: The Cannongate is a famous street of some antiquity in Edinburgh which links the Castle and Holyrood
N: Place. A cadger was originally a word for a 'carrier', or one who whose job it was to ferry about
N: customers in sedan chairs. [Fiddler's Companion]
Z: 2011 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C
L: 1/8
F:http://roaringjelly.org/~jc/music/abc/Scotland/reel/CadgersInTheCanongate_G.abc 2024-12-21 143634 UT
K: G
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