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X: 1 T: Dam it %R: hornpipe B: "The Compleat Country Dancing-Master" printed by John Walsh, London ca. 1740 S: 6: CCDM2 http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Compleat_Country_Dancing-Master_(Various) V.2 (63) Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> N: Repeats added to satisfy the "Each strain twice" instruction. M: C| L: 1/8 K: C % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |:\ c2 B2 c2 B>A | G>F E>F G2 FE |\ D>E F>G A>B cB/A/ | G2 B2 c2 C2 :| |:c>d e2 c>d e2 | c>de>f d>BA>G |\ c>d e2 c>d e2 | c>d e>f g3 a | g>fe>d c>BA>e | f2 A>e f3 e |\ f>ed>c B>A GF/E/ | F2 G2 c4 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%center Each strain twice %%begintext align %% The 1st Cu. turn the 2d Cu. across and turn Partners .| %% The 1st Cu. go the Hey with the 3d Cu. :| The 1st Cu. set %% and the 1st Man cast off the 1st Wo. at the same Time, cast %% up to the Top. then take each Hands with the 2d and 3d Cu. %% and go half round .| The 1st Cu. meet in the Middle and turn %% half round. take Hands with the contrary Cu. and go half %% round, which brings the 1st Cu. into the 2d Cu. Place :| %%endtext %%sep 1 8 500



DAM IT. AKA and see "Damme." English, Country Dance Tune and Hornpipe (4/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was published in John Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master, 3rd Edition (London, 1735), and again in the reprint of 1749.


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Printed sources : - Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Kirkpatrick (John Kirkpatrick's English Choice), 2003; p. 23.






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