Annotation:Chalk's Hornpipe
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CHALK'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Geld Him Lasses," "Rusty Gulley (1)." English, "Old" or Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. "Chalk's Hornpipe" was first printed in John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 3rd Edition (London, 1718), and retained in the 4th edition of 1728. The tune and accompanying dance were also printed by rival London music publisher John Walsh in his Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719). See also James Oswald's "Geld Him Lasses" from 1760, and William Vickers' "Rusty Gulley (1)", 1770.
