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WEARMOUTH LASSES. AKA and see "Yarmouth Lasses." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). England, Yorkshire. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in several English musicians’ manuscript collections of the 19th century, including John Moore (Tyneside, 1841), Laurence Leadley (see below), the Browne family manuscripts (Troutbeck, Cumbria), and William Hall Lister (East Boldon, near Newcastle, mid-19thc.).

Source for notated version: an MS collection by fiddler Laurence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].

Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 66. Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 78, p. 47 (appears as an untitled jig).

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