Annotation:Nottingham Swing

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NOTTINGHAM SWING. AKA - "Hilly-Go Filly-Go All the Way," "Cumberland Reel," "King of the Cannibal Islands." English, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The Nottinghamshire town was much contested in the wars between the Danes and the Saxons. Two years after the Norman invasion William I established a castle here (1068). Prince John was left in charge at Nottingham when Richard I left on his Crusade, thus the close association of the town with John and Robin Hood. In 1642 Charles I raised his standard here, signaling the start of the English Civil War.

There is an English ceilidh dance called the Nottingham Swing, from northern England.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 1), 1951; No. 86, p. 42 (appears as "Hilly-Go, Filly-Go All the Way"). Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 107.

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