Annotation:Every Lad His Lass
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EVERY LAD HIS LASS. English, Country Dance Tune (2/2 time). E Dorian. Standard tuning. AB (Sharp): ABB (Barnes). "Every Lad His Lass" first appears in all four editions of London publisher John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1710-1728). It also was published in Walsh & Randall's The New Country Dancing Master...Second Book (1710), and four editions of John Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master (1718-1749), the last edition published by his son, also John Walsh.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 48. Young (Second Volume of the Dancing Master), 1710; p. 162.
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