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CHICKENS AND ASPARAGUS. English, Country Dance (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was first published in John Walsh's The Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1735) and in his The Compleat Country Dancing-Master. Volume the Sixth (London, 1754, p. 180).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Daniel Wright (Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances), 1740; p. 41.

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