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KIND AND EASY. English, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody and dance instructions ("Longways for as many as will") first appear in John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master, third edition [1] (p. 311), published in London in 1718. Young was heir to the Playford publishing concerns.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 70.

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