Annotation:Success to the Fleet
X:1 T:Success to the Fleet M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune B:John Hinton - Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (November, 1755, p. 224) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Gmin D|GBd dBG|g^fg dBG|cde edc|Bcd BAG| GBd dBG|g^fg dBG|c/d/ec dBG|A^FD G2:| |:B|BcB fdB|bfd fdB|cdc gec|GAB A^FD| GBd dBG|g^fg cde|dBd dBd|A^FD G2:|]
SUCCESS TO THE FLEET. English, Jig (6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Success to the Fleet" is a country dance and tune first printed in John Hinton's Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure in November, 1755 (p. 224). It was followed soon after with a printing in Richard Baldwin's rival periodical The London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer of March, 1756 (p. 141).
