Annotation:Cure of All Grief (The)
X:1 T:Cure of all Grief M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune B:John Walsh – Caledonian Country Dances vol. II (1737, No. 338, p. 78) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D d2A d2e|f2g a3|gfe d2g|fge d3| d2A d2e|f2g a3|gfe d2g|fge d3:| |:a2g fga|g2f g3|g2f efg|f2e f3| d2A d2e|f2g a3|gfe d2g|fge d3:|]
CURE OF ALL GRIEF. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The cure of all grief" is the name of a song by London bass singer and composer Richard Leveridge (1670-1758), from around 1730. It was adapted as a country dance tune and printed John Walsh in his Caledonian Country Dances, vol. II, part 1, c. 1737, p. 78), and later by John Johnson in his Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances (vol. IV, p. 7, 1748). The melody was also entered into the music copybook of Welsh fiddler John Thomas, dated 1752.
