X:1
T:King’s Birth Day [1]
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Country Dance Tune
B:Straight and Skillern – Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (c. 1775, No. 30, p. 15)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:C
cgeg|fgdg|egec|BdBG|AcBd|egdf|edcB|c2C2:|
|:Ac Tc2|Gc Tc2|fedc|BdBG|Ac Tc2|Gcce|fdcB|c2C2:|]
KING'S BIRTH DAY [1]. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The birthday of King George III, the first Hanoverian king born in England rather than Germany,was June 4th, 1738. He ruled from 1760-1820, and the date of his birthday was cause for a public celebration throughout Britain. The ruling King or Queen actually has two birthdays, a tradition that began in 1748 with George II, who was born in November, not a propitious weather month in England. Therefore a second took place on the second Saturday in each June, notwithstanding the actual date of each monarch's birthday.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Straight and Skillern (Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), c. 1775; No. 30, p. 15. Skillern (Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels...Country Dances), 1780; p. 15.
