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WE BE SOLDIERS THREE. AKA - "Soldiers Three." English, Ballad Air (3/4 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song [Round 8340] (with music) appears in Thomas Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia (1609) and Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (1698).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 1), 1859; p. 133.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
See note for the tune at Mainly Norfolk [2]




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