Annotation:Duckers of Down
X:1 T:Duckets sits down T:Duckers of Down M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel S:John Rook music manuscript collection (1840, p. 26) N:Rook was a multi-instrumentalist from Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Gmix A|Bcdc BGGB|AB/c/fc AFFA|BcdB dfcf|AF F/F/F BGG:| d/f/|gd d/d/d gdgb|fc c/c/c fAfa|gd d/d/d gdgb|AF F/F/F BGGd/f/| gd d/d/d gdgb|fc c/c/c/ fAfa|bagf dfAf|AF F/F/F BGG||
DUCKERS OF DOWN. Scottish, Reel (cut time). G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Joshua Campbell's A Collection of New Reels & Highland Strathspeys (1788, p. 72). The tune was entered as "Duckets sits down" in the large 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook (Waverton, Cumbria).
