Traditional Folk Songs Of Many Nations

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	The Campbells are comin' A Popular Scotch Air.

	Composed, 15GS.



	Here we have one of the genuine old Scottish melodies. It was composed over three centuries ago and lias been popular ever since. It has always been a great favorite with German composers. Brueh made it the chief theme in his Cantata."Fair Ellen" and Volkiuann used it as a theme in the battle of Bosworth field in his "Richard III Overture," a Scottish song composed in 1568, in an English battle fought in 1485! The tunc was originally in tho pentatonic'(five toned) scale, with fourth and seventh notes of our scale o-mitted.