Annotation:Jack's Gone a-Shearing
Tune properties and standard notation
JACK'S GONE A SHEARING. English, Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. See also the related tunes "Forks and Knives," "Three Case Knives," and one of the "Rusty Gulley" tunes. There are some melodic and harmonic similarities between this tune and the Shetland 3/4 melody "Du's Bön Lang Awa and A'm Tocht Land ta See Dee."
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