Annotation:Room for Company
X:1 % T:Room for Company M:6/4 L:1/8 S:Chappell – Popular Music of the Olden Times (1859) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Gmin B4 F2 D3EF2 | e2c2B2 cBAG F2 | B4 F2 D3E F2 | d2c2B2 B6 :| |: d2c2B2 cd c2B2 | d2c2B2 cBAG F2 | B4 F2D3E F2 | d2c3 B B6 :|
ROOM FOR COMPANY. English, Country Dance Air (6/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air appears in Musick's Recreation on the Lyra-Viol (1652), Pills to Purge Melancholy (1707 & 1719); the original ballad dates to Elizabethan times. Chappell (1859) says a later version of the air was known as "Hunting the Hare."