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KISS MY LADY [2]. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major (Leadley): A Major (Sands): D Major (Rook). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The melody appears in the music manuscript collection of Lincolnshire musician Thomas Sands, c. 1810, and is the same as Yorkshire fiddler Lawrence Leadley's (late 1840's) and Cumbrian multi-instrumentalist John Rook's (1840) versions, save for the changes of key.

Source for notated version: a music manuscript collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].

Printed sources: Merryweather and Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 47, p. 41.

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