Annotation:Navvy (The)
NAVVY, THE. AKA and see "New Bridge Hornpipe," "Pitman's Strike." English, Hornpipe. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The hornpipe appears in the 1841-1860 music manuscript of William Hall Lister and Robert Lister [1], of East Boldon, near Newcastle, Northumberland. Matt Seattle notes (on the FARNE site) that the tune is to be found in several Northumbrian manuscripts, albeit with a different title each time. The Listers themselves entered the tune twice, under different names.
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