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PLAINS OF WATERLOO [1], THE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is from a Northumbrian piper’s MS of about 1816. Kidson instructs that the air not be confused with that commonly adapted to the broadside ballad of the same name (AKA "Susan's Adventures in a Man of War").

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kidson (Old English Country Dances), 1890; p. 23.

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