Annotation:Why did You Promise to Marry?
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WHY DID YOU PROMISE TO MARRY. English, Slip Jig. England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. See also the related “Astrope Wells the New Way” "Billy O’Rourke," "Irish Merry Making" and “Merry Making (2).”
Source for notated version: William Vickers music manuscript collection [1] (1770, Northumberland) [Seattle].
Printed sources: Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 238.
Recorded sources: Front Hall FHR 08, Alistair Anderson "Traditional Tunes" (1976).