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OSWESTRY WAKE. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune and country dance directions ("Longways for as many as will") were first published in John Young's third edition of The Second Book of the Dancing Master [1] (London, 1718), and in Walshy & Hare's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1719). There is a Welsh dance to the tune called Dawns Croesoswallt, published in Eddie Jones' Dawnsie Twmpath.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 74.

Recorded sources:

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-'''OSWESTRY WAKE.''' English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune was first published in John Young's third edition of '''The Second Book of the Dancing Master''' (London, 1718), and in Walshy & Hare's '''Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master''' (London, 1719). There is a Welsh dance to the tune called Dawns Croesoswallt, published in Eddie Jones' '''Dawnsie Twmpath.'''
+'''OSWESTRY WAKE.''' English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune and country dance directions ("Longways for as many as will") were first published in John Young's third edition of '''The Second Book of the Dancing Master''' [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play5803.htm] (London, 1718), and in Walshy & Hare's '''Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master''' (London, 1719). There is a Welsh dance to the tune called Dawns Croesoswallt, published in Eddie Jones' '''Dawnsie Twmpath.'''
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