Annotation:New Year's Gift (1)
X:1 T:New Year's Gift [1] C:James Hill M:C| L:1/8 R:Hornpipe S:The c. mid-19th century manuscript of William Hall Lister and Robert Lister, East Bolden, Northumberland. Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A cd | e2 e^d eaga | faga fedc | Bdfe dcBA | GAFG E2 cd | e2 e^d eaga | faga fedc | Bcdf eEFG | A/B/c/d/ ec A2 :| |: BA | GABc edBG | ABcd ecAc | cBdc e^dfe | gfaf ecdf | e2 e^d eaga | faga fedc | Bcdf eEFG | (A/B/)c/d/ ec A2 :|]
NEW YEAR'S GIFT [1]. AKA and see "New Year's Day (3)." English, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A melody composed by the great Tyneside fiddler and composer biography:James Hill, probably written in the mid-18th century. It was included in a manuscript book (c. mid-19th century) of William Hall Lister and Robert Lister [1], East Bolden, Northumberland, who both seem to have contributed pieces to the manuscript and who were probably both fiddlers. See also the nearly identical variant "New Year's Day (3)."
