Comical Fancy
COMICAL FANCY. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Comical Fancy" first appeared in R. Baldwin's London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer of 1760. It is one of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance tune manuscript collection.
Printed source: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2), 1765; No. 26.
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