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OSWESTRY WAKE. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune was published in John Young's edition of Playford's Dancing Master of 1718 and 1728, and John Young's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master (London, 1719). There is a Welsh dance to the tune called Dawns Croesoswallt, published in Eddie Jones' Dawnsie Twmpath.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 74.

Recorded sources:

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