Annotation:Bowyer's Whim
X:1 T:Bowyer's Whim M:C L:1/8 R:Reel and Country Dance Tune B:Baldwin - The London Magazine or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, B:August, 1761, p. 432. Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G (BG)(BG) (Ac) Tc2|(BG)(BG) (DA)Tc2|(BG)(BG) (ABcd)|(edcB) A2-A2:| |:(dB)(dB) (ce) Te2|cAcA Bd Td2|(BG)(BG) (ABcd)|egdc BG TG2:| |:geTdB geTdB|geTdB cA TA2|geTdB geTdB|cedc BG-G2:|]
BOWYER'S WHIM. English, Reel and Country Dance Tune (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. In addition to the printed sources listed, "Bowyer's Whim" was entered into the music manuscript copybook of Lincolnshire fifer Thomas_Buttery, who served as a musician in the British army for two decades in the very early 19th century.
