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MAD COUPLE, THE. English, Reel or Highland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Johnson printed a "Mad Couple" in his Two Hundred Favourite Country Dances, vol. 8 (London, 1758) but it is a different tune (in 6/8 time).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 116, p. 28.

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