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PRETTY BETSY. English, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is unique to Charles and Samuel Thompson’s Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1767 and their Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1767), p. 35. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 79.

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