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BOYS AND GIRLS TO PLAY. AKA - "Boys and Girls Come out to Play." English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 or 6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune was published in all four editions of John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1710-1728), and in rival publishers Walsh and Randall's The New Country Dancing Master, Second Book (1710) and Walsh and Hare's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Young (Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 1st edition), 1710; p. 138.

Recorded sources:




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