Annotation:Devil Among the Tailors (3) (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
DEVIL AMONG THE TAILORS [3], THE. English, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning. AABABA. The melody appears under this title in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773, No. 95). It also appears (as do many of the tunes in the Thompson's 1773 collection) in the 1788 commonplace book of fiddlers John and William Pitt Turner (Norwich, Conn.).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 30. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 95.
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