Annotation:Jack the Frenchman
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JACK THE FRENCHMAN. AKA - "Jack the French Man." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The melody and dance instructions appear in all four editions of London publisher John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1710-1728), in Walsh & Randall's The New Country Dancing Master...Second Book (London, 1710), and Walsh and Hare's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719).
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Printed sources: : Young (Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 1st edition), 1710; p. 159.
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