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Lassie What Mair Wad Ye Ha'e

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Lassie What Mair Wad Ye Ha'e
32 bar Jig for 3 Couples in a 4 Couple Set, devised by George S Emmerson 1982, Published in The Thistle and Trillium.

Also known as "Sheila Scott's Jig"


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This dance shares its title with the Lassie What Mair Wad Ye Ha'e - Poem, written by the Scottish poet Alexander Gray before 1940.

The title is Scots for "Lassie, what more would you have?", a question repeated in the poem as the speaker lists what he can offer his lassie.

O, you're braw wi' your pearls and your diamonds,
You've routh o' a' thing, you may say,
And there's nane has got bonnier een, Kate:
'Od, lassie, what mair wad you hae?



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