Annotation:New Year's Gift (2)
X:1 T:New Year’s Gift [2] M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune B:Straight and Skillern – Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (c. 1775, No. 54, p. 27) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Eb [G,2E2]EG|[B,2F2]FA|[G,2E2]EG|[B,2F2] FA|BGEG |AFDF|E2E2|E4:| |:BGEG|BGEG|FDB,D|FDB,D|BGEG|BGEG|E2E2|E4:|]
NEW YEAR'S GIFT [2]. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody also appears in Thomas Skillern's Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels...Country Dances (1780).
