Annotation:'Twas within a Furlong of Edinburgh Town
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'TWAS WITHIN A FURLONG OF EDINBURGH TOWN. English, Country Dance Tune ( ). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. The tune was first published in Henry Playford's Dancing Master, 9th edition (1701, p. 12). It was retained in subsequent editions of the Dancing Master through the 18th and final edition of 1728. It was also published by rival London music publisher John Walsh in his Compleat Country Dancing Master, 1718, 1731, and 1754, and in his Compleat Country Dancing Master, Volume the Fourth (1740).