Annotation:Devil Among the Tailors (3) (The)
X:1 T:Devil Among the Tailors [3], The M:6/8 L:1/8 N:May also be played an octave higher R:Jig S:Thompson - Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (1773) K:A CB,|A,CA, CA,C|ECE AEA|FAF DFD|EAE CEC| DFD B,DB,|CEC A,CA,|B,DB, G,B,G,|A,2A, A,:| |:CD|EFE EFE|DED DED|CDC CDC|B,CB, B,CD| EFE EFE|DED DED|CDC CDC|(B,3 B,2)E| A,CA, CA,C|ECE AEA|FAF DFD|EAE CEC| DFD B,DB,|CEC A,CA,|B,DB, G,B,G,|A3 A,:||
DEVIL AMONG THE TAILORS [3], THE. English, Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABABA. The melody appears under this title in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773, No. 95). It also appears (as do many of the tunes in the Thompson's 1773 collection) in the 1788 commonplace book of fiddlers John and William Pitt Turner (Norwich, Conn.).
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