Annotation:Keep It Up (2)
X:1 T:Keep it up [2] M:6/8 L:1/8 B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A a2A agf|efd c3|e2E edc|BAG A3| a2A agf|gfe B2a|gfe Tf3|(e3 e3):| |:f2F fed|cB^A B3|e2E edc|BAG A3| cA(e e)dc|dBf fed|cBA B3|(A3 A3):||
KEEP IT UP [2]. English, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was first published in John Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6 (London, 1751). It also appears in B. Andrez's Belgian collection of 1758 entitled L'Echo, ou Journal Musique de francoise.