X:490
T: the Merry lads of Ayre
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B: "Preston's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1803", Tho. Preston, ed. p.205 #2
F: http://archive.org/details/Prestons24CountryDancesForTheYear1805
F: http://folkopedia.efdss.org/wiki/File:Preston_24_1803.PDF
Z: 2011,2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C
L: 1/8
F:http://john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/DftY/1803/Preston/490_Merry_lads_of_Ayre.abc	 2025-01-19 085842 UT
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