Annotation:Red Ribbon (The)
X:1 T:Red Ribbon, The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance B:Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (1740, p. 67) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Emin e2B B2A|GFG E2B|efg f2e|^def B3| gfe d2c|B3g3|dcB AGF|G3-G2:| |:BAG B2c|de^c d3|AGF A2B|cBA B2f| gfe ^def|A3 ABc|BAG F2E|E3-E2:|]
RED RIBBON, THE. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in London publisher John Walsh's The Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1735, p. 93) and The Compleat Country Dancing-Master. Volume the Sixth (1754, p. 137), and in dancing master Daniel Wright's Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (London, 1740, p. 67).
