Annotation:Bobby Shaftoe (3)

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BOBBY SHAFTOE [3]. AKA and see "Brave Willie Forster," "Canny Willie Foster." English, Reel. England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the c. 1812 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician John Bell [1] (1783-1864). Matt Seattle identifies the tune as a version of "Brave Willie Forster" or "Canny Willie Foster," and says that it was, with old words, an electioneering song employed in 1761 by Robert Shaftoe.

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