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BATCHELOR'S BUTTON. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Bachelor's Button was a token baked into a Christmas pudding. The custom was that, if a single man found it, they would be a bachelor for the following year.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Straight and Skillern (Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), c. 1775; No. 166, p. 83.
Recorded sources: