Annotation:O Come to the Dale

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X:1 T:O Come to the Dale M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig K:Bb F|BAB dcB|GAB F2F|BAB dcB|d3 c2F| BAB dcB|GAB F2g|fdB BAc|c3 B2:| |:f|f=ef fef|d3 B3d|d^cd dcd|B3 G2B| BAB cBc|dcd g2g |fdB BAB|d3 c2!D.C.!:|



O COME TO THE DALE. English, Jig (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The uncommon "O Come to the Dale" was also entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter, a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset.


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Printed sources : - Button & Whitaker (Le Sylphe, An Elegant Collection of Twenty four Country Dances, for the Year 1811), 1811; p. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 70, p. 34 (ms. originally dated 1850).






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