Satisfied thus far I relapsed into habitual profanity.

Two of the lines of your infernal tune
fit quite nicely, but what in the name of
sneoi did you do when you came to the third one.

"On" said unperturbed collectress, "the
third line was very BEEF uninteresting, and so we
just left it out."

BREAK HERE FOR THE
REPROD. OF THE MUSIC.

Not only does the saxon fit the tune, but the tune
brings the text into life. Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser
has sung it over in private, but BEEF BEEF one
can not expect Gaelic enthusiasts to spread the glory
of the sassenaen. I think both the Kennedy-Frasers
were some what uninterested by the coincidence. If
you believe a tune rates to BEEF Ossian, the existence
of words which fit it, and which date to the Eighteen
gives you
Century only, probably BEEF you thrill.

I have no theories as to who got it from
wnien. The difficulties I have encountered in
trying to get contemporary singers even to sing
simple Provençal have been such that I have no
intention of trying to persuade any cantor to

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warole in anglo-saxon. If however any such intrepid
vocalist should arise he can get the "accompaniment"
to the melody from the distinguished and I believe
well known firm of Boosey and Co. for the sum of
two snillings englisn.

As to "how":

I have perhaps wailed elsewhere
in print on the terrors of musical notations. No one
so far as I know save <u>TEFFOFFE</u> Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
has even been able to sing the wiffer and more
ferocious songs of the Hebrides. Even her daughter
shows signs of, depressing and horrible traces of
christian respectability. <u>NEFFIFF</u> Christianity may have
its uses, but <u>TEFFHUBFFIFFIFFIEF</u> it has no musical
use. <u>TEFFIEF</u> "any things are all right in their place,
soup, for example, in the tureen, but not ... and so
forth ... there are many places where one does not
want <u>EVERFFAFFGBAFFEIEF</u>.

Salvador Daniel wrote a good book on Arabic
music, but the music he printed certainly will not
cause any musician to play arabic music, or any
piece of arabic music that he has not already heard.
amount

I strongly suggest that a great deal of
the Hebridean song is not <u>sung</u> in even bars. The
laziness of musicians may make it easier to sell
off an edition of a song that looks simple on paper.

<u>FINISHED</u> Finding the music so printed,
it remains for the prospective singer either to <u>listen</u>
quite attentively to the scald, until he, sne or
it learns what the scald is doing; or failing the