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DAY'S WHIM. English, Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. In addition to Daniel Wright's 1740 collection (published in London by John Johnson), the tune also appears in John Walsh's The Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1735, p. 147, and the later edition of 1749, p. 145).


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Printed sources : - Offord (John of the Green: Ye Cheshire Way), 1985; p. 41. Wright (Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances), 1740; p. 43.






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