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LAMBETH WELLS. English, Country Dance Air (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was printed by The name Lambeth is an Anglo-Saxon name derived from the word 'hythe' and used for a place where lambs were shipped across a river; over time 'lamb hythe' was reshaped by local tongues into Lambeth. Lambeth Wells was a fashionable spot south-west of London where concerts were occasionally given in past centuries.

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Printed sources: Watson (A Rolick of Recorders and Other Instruments), 1975; No. 13, p. 16.

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