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JOHNNY'S SO LONG AT THE FAIR [1]. AKA and see "O dear! what can the matter be?" English, Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time) and Air. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One Part (Mallinson): AB (Bacon). A morris jig collected in the Bampton, Oxfordshire, area of England's Cotswolds.

Source for notated version: Arnold Woodley, William 'Jinkey' or 'Billy' Wells (1868–1953) [Bacon].

Printed sources: Bacon (A Handbook of Morris Dances), 1974; pp. 35, 40. Mallinson (Mally's Cotswold Morris Book, vol. 2), 1988; No. 10, p. 6.

Recorded sources: Topic TSCD607, Walter & Daisy Bulwer – "English Country Music" (2000. Originally recorded 1962).




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