STRIKE THE COLOURS. English, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. ‘Strike the colours’ = surrender the ship. The melody, transcribed in 3/4 time but effectively a slip-jig in 9/8 time, is unique to London publisher Charles and Samuel Thompson’s 1765 country dance collection.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2), 1765; No. 138.
