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|f_annotation='''LAST MERRY NIGHT, THE.'''  English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB; AABB (Winter). The tune was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset.
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|f_printed_sources=John Johnson ('''A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 3'''), 1744; No. 199. David Rutherford ('''Rutherford's Country Dances vol. 1'''), 1756; No. 152.  John Walsh ('''Fourth Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master'''), 1747; p. 114.  Geoff Woolfe ('''William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book'''), 2007; No. 56, p. 30 (ms. originally dated 1850).
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X: 1 T:Last merry Night. JJo3.199 B:J.Johnson Choice Collection Vol 3 1744 Z:vmp.Anne Wride 2014 www.village-music-project.org.uk M:6/4 L:1/4 Q:3/4=110 F:http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Johnson/JohnsonVol3(Dec14).abc K:G d | BGB d2g | !trill!f2g!trill!f2g | BGB d2e | dcBA2 :| |: d |ec/d/edB/c/d| cBAg2d | ec/d/edB/c/d | cBAG2:| W:(N.B. This tune is written in D in the original but works much better in G) W:First Cu. foot and cast off W:Same back again W:Cross over and half figure W:Foot double 4 Corners without turning W:Lead three sides without turning



LAST MERRY NIGHT, THE. English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB; AABB (Winter). The tune was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset.


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Printed sources : - John Johnson (A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 3), 1744; No. 199. David Rutherford (Rutherford's Country Dances vol. 1), 1756; No. 152. John Walsh (Fourth Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master), 1747; p. 114. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 56, p. 30 (ms. originally dated 1850).






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