Annotation:Cheshire Rolling Hornpipe

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CHESHIRE ROLLING HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Drunken Sailor (5)," "Rolling Hornpipe (The)," "Sailors are all at the bar (The)," "Sailors is all at the bar." English, (Old) Hornpipe (6/4). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The melody appears in Walsh's third collection of Lancashire tunes (Lancashire Jigs, Hornpipe, Joaks, etc.) published in London around the year 1730. See note for "annotation:Rolling Hornpipe (The)" for more.

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Recorded sources: Folksound FSCD37, Rising Sun Band - "Setting it Right" (1996).

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