Annotation:Joyful Days is Coming
Tune properties and standard notation
JOYFUL DAYS IS COMING. AKA and see "Durham Old Women." English, Jig (9/8 time). England, Northumberland. D Major (Vickers): G Major (Stokoe). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Matt Seattle notes the 2nd strain is perhaps related to "How She’ll Ne’er be Guided", or "Faraway Wedding (1) (The)." See also note for "Talk:Durham Old Women."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Stokoe & Bruce, Northumbrian Minstrelsy; p. 47 (appears as "Durham Old Woman"). Seattle (William Vickers), 1987, Part 3; No. 404.
Recorded sources: