Annotation:Leave Well Alone
X: 1 T: Leave Well Alone M: 12/8 L: 1/8 R: slide K: Dmaj |:f2A f2A f2e e2f | dBc d2f edB ABd | f2A f2A f2e e2c | dBB ABd e3 d3 :| |: ABd def a2f e2d | Bee efe d2B BAB | ABd def a2f e2d | Bee efe d3 d3:|
LEAVE WELL ALONE. Irish, Slide (12/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Leave Well Alone", a Munster slide, has English antecedents as a quadrille tune. It can be found in three untitled entries[1] in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset.
- ↑ The c. 1850 Winter ms. has the tune as "Popular Organ Tune" (ms. p. 18), "Quadrille in D" (ms. p. 52), and "Quicksteps" (ms. p. 104).