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MILK POT, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The country dance tune and directions were also printed in Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels...Country Dances (1780).

"And Down at Once the Milk-Pot Came", by Charles Robinson (1870-1937)

The first strain is similar to the first strains of "Miss Hussey's Reel" and "Pretty Milliner (The)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Straight and Skillern (Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), c. 1775; No. 82, p. 41.

Recorded sources:

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