Annotation:Round about Ferryhill

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ROUND ABOUT FERRYHILL. English, Jig (12/8 time). England, Northumberland. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Vickers manuscript researcher Matt Seattle notes that the jig is not found elsewhere, and that 'Ferryhill' probably refers to Ferryhill in County Durham. Lean's Collectanea (1891), a volume of proverbs, sayings and folklore collected by Vincent Stuckey Lean, gives the following couplet:

Round about Ferryhill, Hey for Hett
There's many a bonny lass, but few to get.

Ferryhill and Hett are "Two villages at no great distance from Durham" notes an editor.


Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 3; No. 262.

Recorded sources: -


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