Annotation:Pretty Poll

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PRETTY POLL. AKA - "Pretty Poll, a Pleasant Dialogue between a Parret and His Master." English, Air and Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. The melody and dance instructions appear in all four editions of London publisher John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master (p. 106), beginning with the first edition of 1710. It was also published that same year by Walsh and Randall in their New Country Dancing Master, 2nd Book, and in a later Walsh publication,The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1719). The song version, called "Pretty Poll, a Pleasant Dialogue between a Parret and His Master," was printed on broadside sheets.

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