Annotation:Cheshire Rolling Hornpipe

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CHESHIRE ROLLING HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Drunken Sailor (5)," "Rolling Hornpipe (The)," "Sailors are all at the bar (The)," "Sailors is all at the bar." English, "Old" or Triple Hornpipe (6/4 or 9/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (Offord): AABBCC (Walsh). The melody appears in London music publisher John Walsh's third collection of Lancashire tunes (Lancashire Jigs, Hornpipe, Joaks, etc.) published in London around the year 1730. See note for "annotation:Rolling Hornpipe (The)" for more.


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Printed sources : - John Offord (John of the Green: Ye Cheshire Way), 1985; p. 65.

Recorded sources : - Folksound FSCD37, Rising Sun Band - "Setting it Right" (1996).




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