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'''ALL THE LADS OF COPPER ALLEY.''' AKA and see "[[Money Musk (1)]]." English, Reel. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody appears in the c. 1812 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician John Bell (1783-1864). The title also appears in Henry Robson's list of Northumbrian song and dance tunes, c. 1800. | '''ALL THE LADS OF COPPER ALLEY.''' AKA and see "[[Money Musk (1)]]." English, Reel. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody appears in the c. 1812 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician John Bell (1783-1864). He appended this note with the tune: | ||
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''Caleb Angus, a coach maker in the gge Market, Newcastle, he bought a piece of property'' | |||
''part of the States Hall Property with ...title for very little money which he built by work'' | |||
'', called Angus's Mechanic's Court, which he called Angus's Court and Saint John's Lane, the'' | |||
''latter known to the public by the nameof Copper Alley from his paying the workmen their'' | |||
''weekly wages in Birmingham Copper halfpence which gave rise to the song and tune of "All the'' | |||
''Lads of Copper Alley." He was born in the year 1742 and was married at ...10 June 1771 to ...'' | |||
''Jameson, who was daughter of ....and died 13th May 1823 aged 89 years.'' | |||
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The title also appears in Henry Robson's list of Northumbrian song and dance tunes, c. 1800. | |||
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ALL THE LADS OF COPPER ALLEY. AKA and see "Money Musk (1)." English, Reel. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody appears in the c. 1812 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician John Bell (1783-1864). He appended this note with the tune:
Caleb Angus, a coach maker in the gge Market, Newcastle, he bought a piece of property part of the States Hall Property with ...title for very little money which he built by work , called Angus's Mechanic's Court, which he called Angus's Court and Saint John's Lane, the latter known to the public by the nameof Copper Alley from his paying the workmen their weekly wages in Birmingham Copper halfpence which gave rise to the song and tune of "All the Lads of Copper Alley." He was born in the year 1742 and was married at ...10 June 1771 to ... Jameson, who was daughter of ....and died 13th May 1823 aged 89 years.
The title also appears in Henry Robson's list of Northumbrian song and dance tunes, c. 1800.
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