Comet (1) (The)
COMET [1], THE. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Originally published in (Thompson's?) Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1758, in December of which year Halley's Comet made one of its 76 year pilgrimages.
Printed sources: English Dance and Song, vol. 48, No. 1, Spring, 1986, p. 20. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2), 1765; No. 10.
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