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LEAVE WELL ALONE. AKA and see "Golden Valley (The)." 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]

↑ 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).

in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - David Taylor (Music for the Sets: Yellow Book), 1995; p. 13. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 146, p. 56 (ms. originally dated 1850).

Recorded sources : - Robert Ryan & Eileen Gannon - "Down the Rocky Road" (2021).

See also listing at :
Hear the slide played by Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich at youtube.com [1]

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↑ 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).

[1] 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).

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