Annotation:New Black Fryer's Bridge
X:1 T:New Black Fryer's Bridge M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Straight and Skillern – Two Hundred and Four Favourite B:Country Dances, vol. 1 (c. 1775, No. 144, p. 72) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F FGAB c2f2|cAGF GEDC|c2 BA d2e2|fcBA A2G2| FGAB c2f2|efga {g}f2 ed|fdc=B cfaf|edc=B c4:| |:G2 AB A2 Bc|B2A2f2e2|defg afed|^c2 Bc A2 de| f2=c2 dcBA|GABc {B}A2 GF|BGFE d2 cB|AGFE F4:|]
NEW BLACK FRYER'S BRIDGE. AKA and see "Trip to New England." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Blackfriar's Bridge [1], spanning the Thames in London, was constructed with nine semi-elliptical arches of Portland stone and took nine years to build, opening to the public in 1769.
London music publishers T. Straight and T. Skillern printed the tune twice in their Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (c. 1775), as "New Black Fryer's Bridge" and as "Trip to New England."
