X:1
T:Happy Fisherman, The
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
N:Under section of "Dances, 1787".
B:Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson - Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (1788, p. 21)
B:Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson - 24 Country Dances for the Year 1787 (London, 1787, p. 21)
N:" As they are Perform'd at Court, Bath and all Publick Assemblys ."
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:A
A2A cBc|dfd Bcd|cBA AGA|BGE EFG|
A2A cBc|dfd Bcd|cBA|EFG|A3 [A,3A3]:|
|:fdA FDf|ecA E[Cc]e|dcB cBA|GAB EFG|
A2A cBc|dfd Bcd|cBA EFG|A3 [A,3A3]:|]
HAPPY FISHERMAN, THE. English, Country Dance Tune or Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788, p. 21.
Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson (24 Country Dances for the Year 1787), 1787; p. 21. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 38, p. 26 (ms. originally dated 1850).
