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 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 [1], published in London c. 1815.

Source for notated version:

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

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