Annotation:Yorkshireman in London (The)
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YORKSHIREMAN IN LONDON, THE. English, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Originally set in the key of ‘G’ in Gibbons’ mss. The are some similarities to "Because He was a Bonnie Lad." There was a song called "A Yorkshireman in London" printed a volume called A Garland of New Songs, printed by J. Marshall in the Old Flesh-Market, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, c. 1810.
Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].
Printed sources: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 5.
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