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HIGHWAY TO SCARBOROUGH. AKA - "High Way to Scarborough." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The town of Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast, has been a resort town for hundreds of years. See notes to "annotation:Long Room of Scarborough (The)" for more. "Highway to Scarborough" is one of the "missing tunes" in William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance tune manuscript (listed in the index), and it was entered into the music manuscript collection of J

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Rutherford (Rutherford's Choice Collection of Sixty of the Most Celebrated Country Dances), 1750; p. 20. Rutherford (Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 country Dances vol. 2), 1760; p. 41.

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-'''HIGHWAY TO SCARBOROUGH.''' AKA - "High Way to Scarborough." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The town of Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast, has been a resort town for hundreds of years. See notes to "[[annotation:Long Room of Scarborough (The)]]" for more. "Highway to Scarborough" is one of the "missing tunes" in William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance tune manuscript (listed in the index).
+'''HIGHWAY TO SCARBOROUGH.''' AKA - "High Way to Scarborough." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The town of Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast, has been a resort town for hundreds of years. See notes to "[[annotation:Long Room of Scarborough (The)]]" for more. "Highway to Scarborough" is one of the "missing tunes" in William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance tune manuscript (listed in the index), and it was entered into the music manuscript collection of J
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