Annotation:Swalwell Lasses
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SWALWELL LASSES. English, Hornpipe (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. England, Northumberland. The tune can be found in a notebook of the 19th century Northumbrian collector John Stokoe. Swalwell is a village in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, northeast England. 'Swalwell lasses' are mentioned in a song called "Visit to Swalwell" by a local poet, Thomas Marshall, directed to be sung to the tune of "Betsey Baker":
