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LAMBETH WELLS. English, Country Dance Air (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was printed by Henry Playford in the Dancing Master Part Two (2nd edition) of 1698. 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.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barlow (The Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 378, p. 89. Watson (A Rolick of Recorders and Other Instruments), 1975; No. 13, p. 16.
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