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VULCAN'S CAVE. AKA and see "Bunty's Goast," "Cabbages and Onions," "Cannibal Islands (The)," "Cotton Lords of Preston," "Cumberland Reel," "Deux Rivales (Les)," "Double-dee-Doubt," "Ghost that Haunted Bunty (The)," "Handcart Song (The)," "Hilly-Go Filly-Go All the Way," "Hokee Pokee Wonkee Fum," "King of the Cannibal Islands," "Nottingham Swing," "Phillebelulah," "Stanla Markit," "Stanley Market." English, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Vulcan's Cave" was a popular melody in England going by several names. However, it was composed and first published by a music seller from Bath, England, by the name of John Charles White (1795-1845), who published it as the second figure (l'Ete) in his White's Third Set of Quadrilles (1815) where it is called "Les Deux Rivales." White later adapted the tune as a country dance and renamed it “Vulcan’s Cave.” It was “introduced at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, performed at the Amicable Society’s Balls, Willis’s Rooms, and all Fashionable assemblies in London, Bath, Cheltenham, Brighton, etc.”

The melody appears under the title "Vulcan's Cave" in the music manuscript copybooks of several English musicians from the early-to-mid 19th century.

Some of the alternate titles are the names of songs set to the tune, the most popular of which was "King of the Cannibal Islands". It is possible that "Vulcan's Cave" was also turned into a song. There is a fragment of a song entitled "Vulcan's Cave" printed in George Coward's The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland (1874, No. 221), although whether there is any association with the country dance tune is unknown.

How we work, like jovial fellows,
Drink and sing and blow the bellows,
When hissing sparks around us fly,
And lips are parch'd and throats are dry,
Then, then's the time to wet your eye,
And blow, blow the bellows. — (Blows) —
Twank-a-dillo, twank-a-dillo,
Twank-a-dillo — dillo — ditto ;
And we play'd our merry pipes
Down by the green willow.

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+|f_annotation='''VULCAN'S CAVE.''' AKA and see "[[Bunty's Goast]]," "[[Cabbages and Onions]]," "[[Cannibal Islands (The)]]," "[[Cotton Lords of Preston]]," "[[Cumberland Reel]]," "[[Deux Rivales (Les)]]," "[[Double-dee-Doubt]]," "[[Ghost that Haunted Bunty (The)]]," "[[Handcart Song (The)]]," "[[Hilly-Go Filly-Go All the Way]]," "[[Hokee Pokee Wonkee Fum]]," "[[King of the Cannibal Islands]]," "[[Nottingham Swing]]," "[[Phillebelulah]]," "[[Stanla Markit]]," "[[Stanley Market]]." English, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Vulcan's Cave" was a popular melody in England going by several names.  However, it was composed and first published by a music seller from Bath, England, by the name of John Charles White (1795-1845), who published it as the second figure (l'Ete) in his '''White's Third Set of Quadrilles''' (1815) where it is called "Les Deux Rivales." White later adapted the tune as a country dance and renamed it “Vulcan’s Cave.” It was “introduced at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, performed at the Amicable Society’s Balls, Willis’s Rooms, and all Fashionable assemblies in London, Bath, Cheltenham, Brighton, etc.”
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