Annotation:Go and 'List for a Sailor

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 GO AND 'LIST FOR A SAILOR. English, Air (cut time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The tune is employed for morris dancing in the village of Sherborne. The song to the air is "The Unfortunate Tailor," collected by Dr. George Gardiner in Hampshire from George Lovett of Winchester in 1906 and Alfred Oliver of Basingstoke in 1907 (Malcolm Douglas). The last lines of the song go: So now, kind friends, I'll bid you adieu, No more my woes shall trouble you; I'll ramble the country through and through, And go and 'list for a sailor.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 51.  Recorded sources: Fledgling FLED 3037CD, "Morris On" (CD reissue). Island Records HELP 5, Ashley Hutchings, John Kirkpatrick et at - "Morris On" (1972).

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