Annotation:Robinson Crusoe
X:1 T:Robinson Cruso [sic] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance B:Samuel, Peter & Ann Thompson - Compleat Collecton of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (1788, No. 147, p. 74) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D A|d2d {d}cBc|d3 def|{a}gfg e2a|{g}Tf3-e2A| B2B Bcd|AFD D2d|Bgf edc|d3-d2:| |:A|AGF CEG|A2F D2F|AGE CEG|A2F D2A| BGD ddd|AFD Ddd|ABA AGF|F3-E2A| d2d cBc|d3 def|{a}gfg e2a|{g}Tf3-e2A| B2B Bcd|AFD D2d|Bgf edc|d3 D2:|]
ROBINSON CRUSOE. AKA - "Robinson Cruso." English, Country Dance and Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody with instructions for a country dance appears in London publishers Longman, Broderip & Lukey's Bride's Favourite Collection of 200 Select Country Dances, Cotillons (1776) and later in Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (1788). In the next century New York publisher Edward Riley included it in his Riley's Flute Melodies Vol. 2 (1817).