Annotation:Trip to Gunning Hill Wells
X:1 T:Trip to Gunning Hill Wells M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Neil Stewart – “Select Collection of Scots, English, Irish and Foreign B:Airs, Jiggs & Marches, vol. 1” (1784, p. 11) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A|dfa dfa|dcd ecA|dfa efg|fdd d2:| |:f/g/|aba gag|fdf ecA|ava geg |fdd d2:|
TRIP TO GUNNING HILL WELLS. AKA and see "Trip to Sunninghill Wells (A)." Scottish, English; Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title is properly "Trip to Sunninghill Wells." Sunninghill is a village in the English county of Berkshire, watered by the Blakmoor Stream. It has also several springs, one of which, 'The Wells,' is a chalybeate spring, formerly much frequented. The name Sunninghill means "the home of Sunna's people, that is, the Anglo-Saxon Sunningas tribe".
