Annotation:Game Chicken (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
GAME CHICKEN, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). England, Yorkshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The term 'game chicken' is a variant of 'game cock'; a superlative term, it was sometimes applied to champion boxers in the 19th century.
Source for notated version: a MS collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].
Printed sources: Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 53, p. 42.
Recorded sources: