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DUCKS AND DRAKES. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This jig appears in all four editions of John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master [1], published in London from 1710 to 1728. It also appears in Walsh and Randall's The New Country Dancing Master, Second Book (New York, 1710), and three editions of John Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719, 1735, and 1749, latterly published by son John Walsh Jr.).

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