Annotation:If You Will Not Have Me You May Let Me Go

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 IF YOU WILL NOT HAVE ME, YOU MAY LET ME GO. English, 'Double' or 'Old' Hornpipe (3/2 time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. The melody appears in the 1770 music manuscript book (p. 34) of Northumbrian musician William Vickers (about whom, unfortunately, nothing is known). Vickers gives the same notes with a key of two flats (rather than two sharps), set in 6/8 time.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 76. Knowles (A Northern Lass), 1995; p. 40. Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 27.  Recorded sources: EFDSSCD13, Rising Sun Band - "Hardcore English" (2007. Various artists). Folksound FSCD37, Rising Sun Band - "Setting it Right."

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