Annotation:Hark the Cock Crow’d
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HARK THE COCK CROW'D. Engish, Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. The air goes to a song beginning "Hark the cock crow'd, its day all abroad" that appeared in the first volume of Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth; or, Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719, p. 310). It was used for songs in ballad operas such at The Village Opera (1729) and Genuine Grub (1731), and was printed on songsheets.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 10), 1760; p. 1.
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