Annotation:Suckey's Delight

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X: 1 T: Suckeys Delight M: 6/8 L: 1/8 R: jig B: Charles & Sam Thompson - "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1765" (London, 1765, p. 8) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K: G |:g2f {f}e2d|efg d3|c2B {B}A2G|ABG FED| g2f {f}e2d|efg d2c |BGB AFA|G3 [G3G,3]:| |:B2c d2=f|e2d c2B|A2B c2e|d2c B2A| G2A B2d|c2B A2G|FAG FED|FAG FED| dBg ecg|dBg ecg|BGB AFA|G3 [G3G,3]:|

SUCKEY’S DELIGHT. AKA "Sukey's Delight," "Suky's Delight." AKA and see “Incle and Yarico (2).” English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was also entered into the Joshua Jackson music manuscript collection.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - John Johnson (A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6), 1751; p. 10. Knowles (A Northern Lass), 1995; p. 14. Charles and Samuel Thompson (Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1765), 1765; p. 8. Charles and Samuel Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 4), 1780; p. 92.

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