Annotation:Jack and His Trousers On

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 JACK AND HIS TROUSERS (ON). AKA and see "Cuckoo's Nest (4) (The)," "Cuckoo's Hornpipe," "Jacky Tar," "Jack A Tar," "Come in Jolly Tar with your Trousers On." Scottish, Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The melody appears in the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources:

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