| TYPE | 3 - Complex Melody |
| TOPIC | Love |
| TUNE STRUCTURE | A8 B16 |
| VERSE STRUCTURE | 5v 8l |
| TIME SIGNATURE |
34
|
| KEY SIGNATURE | ♭ |
| TONAL CENTRE | F |
| INCIPIT | GFGB♭B♭,B♭,B♭,CDFGF |
| GENRE | Ballad |
| TEXT SOURCE | 'A Pretty New Song of Nancies Unkindness to her Lover. To its own propper Tune: True Love is a Tormenting Pain' (c.1701) National Library of Scotland Ry.III.a.10(020) |
| TUNE SOURCE | Bunting Notebooks. Special Collections, QUB Library. MS 4.12 |
| FIRST LINE | As I was a ranging yon Forrest of Fancies |
| NOTATED INCIPIT |
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| The National Library of Scotland estimates the first printing of this ballad to have been c.1701. None of the major ballad sheet archives show evidence of an Irish printing. The tune was collected for Bunting around 1800 and clearly shows the characteristically peripetetic movement of songs between localities. |
