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BUTTOCK OF BEEF. AKA - "Buttock of Beaf." English, Country Dance Tune or Jig (6/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. In addition to Daniel Wright's 1740 country dance collection (printed in London by John Johnson), the tune appears in John Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master, 3rd Edition (London, 1735, p. 96, and the subsequent edition of 1749, p. 96).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Wright (Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances), 1740; p. 88.

Recorded sources:

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