Annotation:Old England For Ever

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X: 1 T: Old England For Ever T: Saint Patrick's Day (in the Morning) T: Barbary Bel(le) T: Perry's Victory M: 6/8 L: 1/8 R: jig F: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/385 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/WilliamWinterQuantocks/OldEnglandForEver_G.abc K: Gmaj D \ |: GAG GAB | ded dBG | AGA BGD | EFE E2 D | GAG GAB | ded dBG | AGA BGD |1 E2 FG2 D :|2 E2 FG2 B || |: def gag | fed edB | def gag | fed e2 d | def gag | fed efg | dBG GAB | ded dBG | | AGA BGD | EFE E2 D | GAG GBd | gfe dBG | AGA BGD |1 E2 FG2 B :|2 E2 FG2 D |]



OLD ENGLAND FOR EVER. AKA and see "Barbary Bell," "Perry's Victory (4)," "St. Patrick's Day (in the Morning)." English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Old England For Ever" 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.


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Printed sources : - Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 71, p. 34 (ms. originally dated 1850).






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