Annotation:Michael Turner's No. 3
X: 1 T:Michael Turner's No. 3 R:jig 32 M:6/8 L:1/8 K:A |:E2A AGA|B2c d2e|f2f ecA|AGA BGE| E2A AGA|B2c d2e|f2f ecA|BAG A3:| |:B3 BAB|cdc Bce|a2 e a2e|cdc e2c| B3 BAB|cdc Bce|a2 e a2e|1 cdc e2c:|2 efe dcB||
MICHAEL TURNER'S NO. 3. AKA - "Micheal Turner's Jig." AKA and see "Month of May (1) (The)." English, Jig (6/8 time). England, Sussex. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Fiddler Michael Turner (1796-1885) was for fifty years a Parish Clerk, Sexton and choir leader of a church in Warnham, Sussex, who left behind some music manuscripts. His gravestone reads:
His duty done, beneath this stone
Old Michael lies at rest
His rustic rig, his song, his jig
Were ever of the best.
With nodding head the choir he led
That none should start too soon,
The second he sang full true
His viol played the tune
And when at last his age had passed
One hundred-less eleven,
With faithful cling to fiddle string
He sang himself to heaven.
