Annotation:Wild Goose
X:23 T:Wild Goose. Ru1.103, The F:http://www.vwml.org/record/RutherfordVol1/2248/p52 L:1/8 Q:1/4=100 N:NB the final note of each part is given as a quaver in the original. I have altered it to a crotchet K:D TF2AF G/G/G BG| TF2AF G/F/E/D/ CE|F2AF G/G/G BG|AFdF D/D/D "NB"D2:| |:pafdf Te>def|dBAF G/F/E/D/ CE|afdf Te>def|dBTA>F D/D/D D2:| W:The first Couple sets to the 2d. Wo. & Hands W:round 3 .| the same to the Man :| Hands round W:all 4 with the 2d. Couple .|. Right Hand & Left W:into the 2d. Couples place :|
WILD GOOSE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut or 4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune and dance directions appears in London publisher John Johnson's A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6th (1751, p. 53) and in David Rutherford's Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances (1756, p. 52).
