Annotation:Dumble Durn Deary
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DUMBLE DURN DEARY. AKA - "Dumble Dum Deary." English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Vaguely reminiscent of "Lillibulero." The second strain has seven measures to the first strain's four.
Source for notated version: a c. 1837-1840 MS by Shropshire musician John Moore [Ashman].
Printed sources: Ashman (The Ironbridge Hornpipe), 1991; No. 41b, p. 15. Manson (Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book vol. 1), 1853; p. 182.
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