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Come A' Ye Kincardine Lads

(as sung by Old Blind Dogs -- traditional (Stonehaven area), arr. Old Blind Dogs; album Fit? (2001); Roud no. not found)

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PUBLIC -- words traditional. Basis (3 sources, 2026-10-22): (1) Mainly Norfolk "Kincardine Lads / The Gaugers [trad.]", Roud field blank, quotes Susie Malcolm's sleeve note "A song from the Stonehaven area which celebrates illicitly distilled whisky", prints an earlier trad. text sung by Cilla Fisher and Artie Trezise (1976) and Jim Malcolm's OBD version on Fit? (2001) https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/kincardinelads.html ; (2) Celtic Lyrics Corner credit "Traditional; arranged by Old Blind Dogs" (Fit? and Play Live) https://celticlyricscorner.com/oldblinddogs/playlive/kincardine.html and http://callingthetune.co.uk/clc/oldblinddogs/come.htm ; (3) Mudcat thread "Kincardine Lads, also known as Barley Bree" https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=135531 . Sung text: Celtic Lyrics Corner (Fit?) + Mainly Norfolk (OBD version); the same text is on songlyrics.com and elyrics.net (copies). Chords: Mudcat chord post by michaelr (OBD play it in F; shown in E, capo 1) https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=135531 ; ChordU auto-detected chords F Bb Gm C at capo 0 https://chordu.com/chords-tabs-old-blind-dogs-~-come-a-ye-kincardine-lads-id_fnvpqwF9Tvo ; Chordify grid = reference only (machine-detected, E-shapes, capo 1).

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