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DRURY HILL. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title may refer to the narrow street in Nottingham, England, called Drury Hill [1]. An older name for it was Vault-lane after the huge rock cellars underneath a large house, called Vault Hall, to which it led. The Drury Hill name was given to the street around 1620, and honored a wealthy merchant, Alderman Drury, who then resided at Vault Hall.

Drury Hill

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Aird's 6th and Last Volume of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), 1803; No. 64, p. 25.

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