Annotation:Bang Up (1)
X:96 C:Page 47 T:Bang Upp. MBe.96 T:Bang Up [1] A:England;Cumbria;Towcett B:Matthew Betham MS, Towcett Cumbria, 1815 Z:VMP - Hugh Taylor, 2012 M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:3/8=120 R: N:NB-These two notes d notes were written as a crotchet and a dotted crotchet. I have swapped them round. K:D A|d2 d f2 f|a2 a f2 d|g2 e f2 d|cde ABc| d2 d f2 f|a2 a f2 d|g2 e f2 d|cBA d2:| |:A|F2 A E2 A|F2 A d2 c|B2 d A2 d|G2 e cBA| F2 A E2 A|F2 A d2 c|Bcd ABc|"^NB"d3 d2:| |:A|f2 e d2 c|B2 A G2 F|G2 A B2 e|dcB A2 A| f2 e d2 c|B2 A G2 F|G2 B A2 F|GFE D3:|
BANG UP [1]. Irish, English; Jig. D Major. Standard tuning. ABC (Joyce): AABBCC (Callaghan). The melody under the "Bang Up" title appears in the c. 1820-1834 music copybook manuscripts of rural labourer and poet John Clare (1793-1864), Helpston, Northamptonshire (No. 78), and the 1841 copybook of John Moore, Tyneside Northumberland (No. 90). It was published by Preston (1801).
