Betty Blue

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 BETTY BLUE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC (Barnes): AABB (Thompson). The melody first appears in print in David Rutherford's Choice Collection of Sixty of the Most Celebrated Country Dances (London, 1750, with a second volume in 1760). It also appears in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances (London, 1757), John Johnson's Two Hundred Favourite Country Dances, vol. 8 (London, 1758), and a tutor for the guitar published by Thorowgood and Horne (London) around 1763. Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; pg. 87 (appears as "Moor Hall", the name of a dance set to the tune). Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 152. __NORICHEDITOR__