Annotation:Furbelows and Apricocks
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FURBELOWS AND APRICOCKS. AKA - "Mad Frolick (The)." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in all four editions of John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1710, 1714, 1718, 1728), and in all three editions of Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719, 1735, 1749). As "Furbelow'd Apricocks" it was also printed by Johnson in Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, vol. 2, of 1749.
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