Annotation:Kitty Bo-Bo

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KITTY BO-BO. English, Sword Dance Tune (3/4 time). England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. A traditional Northumbrian sword dance tune performed by pitmen at Christmas mummer's plays--see note for "Sword Dancer's Song (The)." The title is perhaps from the Gaelic word for cow, bo. The tune originally appeared in Robert Topliff's volume Sword Dancers [1], published in London c. 1815, a "Selection of the most popular melodies of the Tyne and the Wear consisting of 24 original airs peculiar to the counties of Durham and Northumberland."

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Printed sources: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 137.

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