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Tom Anderson notes: "...composed sometime about the first of the (20th) century, depicting the herring fleet sailing out to the fishing grounds."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Anderson (Ringing Strings), 1983; pg. 84. Boys of the Lough, 1977, pg. 17.

Recorded sources: Topic 12TS379, Tom Anderson & Aly Bain - "Shetland Folk Fiddling, vol. 2" (1978). Transatlantic TRA 311, Boys of the Lough, "Lochaber No More."




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