Annotation:Trip to Scotch Bridge
X: 1 T:Scots Bridge. JJo3.184 B:J.Johnson Choice Collection Vol 3 1744 Z:vmp.Anne Wride 2014 www.village-music-project.org.uk M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:3/8=100 K:G d | BGG G>AB | cAA A>Bc | Bcd egB | A3-A2 d | BGe ^cAf | dBg e^ca | fgf ed^c | d3-d2 :| |: d |fga abc' | bag fed | ege dcB | A3-A2 d | BGB cAc | Bcd egc | BcB AGF | G3-G2 :| W:The 1st Cu. cross over and turn, the 2d. Cu. do the same W:The 1st Cu. lead between the 2d. and cast below the 3d. Cu. then lead up between the 3d. and cast above the 2d. Cu W:The two 1st Cu. hands across half round and hands round back again W:The 1st Man back to back with the 2d. Wo. and turn the 2d. Man W:The 1st Wo. back to back with the 2d. Man and turn the 2d. Wo W:The 1st Cu. cast off below the 2d. lead between the 3d. Cu. and cast up W:The 1st Cu. lead thro' the top and cast off.
TRIP TO SCOTCH BRIDGE. AKA and see "Scots Bridge," "Trip to Scots Bridge." English, Jig and Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first published as "Scots Bridge" by London music publisher John Johnson in his Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (1744, No. 184), then picked up by John Walsh for his Fourth Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master(1747, p. 116). Northumbrian musician William Vickers entered the tune into his large 1770 music manuscript collection as "Trip to Scoth [sic] Bridge", in an identical copy of Johnson's tune.
