Annotation:Jack on the Green (1)
Tune properties and standard notation
JACK O' THE GREEN [1]. AKA - "Cheshire Way (Ye)." English, Jig (9/8 or 9/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was first printed in David Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances (London, 1756). The melody appears in the 1770 music manuscript copybook of William Vickers, a Northumbrian musician about whom, unfortunately, little is known; it also appears in London musician Thomas Hammersley's 1790 music manuscript copybook. See note for "Jack on the Green (2)."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 186.
Recorded sources: