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X: 1 T: You may if you Please [2] %R: jig B: Chas & Sam Thompson "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1765", London 1765, p.3 #2 F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-thompsons1765# Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> (added dance description) M: 6/8 L: 1/8 F:http://john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/DftY/1765_Thompson.abc K: D % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |:\ A3 AFA | BGB AFA | Bcd efg | fed cBA | A3 AFA | BGB AFA | Bgf edc | d3 D3 :| |:\ a2g fed | e2d cBA | Bcd efg | fed cBA | a2g fed | e2d cBA | Bgf edc | d3 D3 :| % - - - - - - - - - - Dance description - - - - - - - - - - %%begintext align %% Cast off one Cu: and up again .|. foot across and %% not turn :|. cross over half figure .|: and right and %% left :|: %%endtext



YOU MAY IF YOU PLEASE [2]. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was entered in a few musicians' manuscript collections of the 19th century, including the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter, a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England, and Joshua Gibbons (Lincolnshire).


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].

Printed sources : - Woolfe (William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; p. 49. Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 72. Thompson (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1765), London, 1765; No. 2, p. 3. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. IV), 1780; No. 178.






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