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|f_annotation='''FOOT'S VAGARIES.''' AKA and see "[[Green Grow the Rushes O]]," "[[Lucky Black's Daughter]]."  English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). E Minor Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is well-known nowadays as the melody of the song "[[Green Grow the Rushes O]]," which was attached as the alternate title in Rutherford's 1756 collection. However, the tune is an old one and predates the mid-18th century country dance publications of Johnson and Rutherford.  
|f_annotation='''FOOT'S VAGARIES.''' AKA and see "[[Green Grow the Rushes O]]," "[[Lucky Black's Daughter]]."  English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). E Minor Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is well-known nowadays as the melody of the song "[[Green Grow the Rushes O]]," which was attached as the alternate title in Rutherford's 1756 collection. However, the tune is an old one and predates the mid-18th century country dance publications of Johnson and Rutherford. As with "[[Foot's Minuet]]," and presuming that the title refers to a person, Chris Partington suggests a possible association with [[wikipedia:Samuel_Foote]] (1720-1777), wit, playwright, and actor.
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|f_printed_sources=John Johnson ('''A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 5'''), 1750; p. 42.  David Rutherford ('''Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances'''), 1756; p. 22.   
|f_printed_sources=John Johnson ('''A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 5'''), 1750; p. 42.  David Rutherford ('''Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances'''), 1756; p. 22.   

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FOOT'S VAGARIES. AKA and see "Green Grow the Rushes O," "Lucky Black's Daughter." English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). E Minor Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is well-known nowadays as the melody of the song "Green Grow the Rushes O," which was attached as the alternate title in Rutherford's 1756 collection. However, the tune is an old one and predates the mid-18th century country dance publications of Johnson and Rutherford. As with "Foot's Minuet," and presuming that the title refers to a person, Chris Partington suggests a possible association with wikipedia:Samuel_Foote (1720-1777), wit, playwright, and actor.


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Printed sources : - John Johnson (A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 5), 1750; p. 42. David Rutherford (Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances), 1756; p. 22.






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