Annotation:Follow Your Lovers
X: 1 T:Follow Your Lovers M:4/4 L:1/8 K:G G3 A B2 B2|cdcA B2 B2 |cdcA B2 B2| c2 c2 B2 B2| A2 GA B2 B2|cdcA B2 B2| [M:6/4] cdcA B2 B2 A2 FA| [M:4/4] G2 B2 G4|| A3 A B2 B2 |A2 AA B2 B2 | A3 A B2 c| dcBA G4||
FOLLOW YOUR LOVERS. AKA and see "Follow My Lover," "Step and Fetch Her (3)," "Triumph (1) (The)." English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 & 6/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Novelist wikipedia:Thomas_Hardy (1840-1928) mentioned the tune in his Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) as follows:
The country-dance called the 'Triumph, or Follow my Lover' was the [first dance]...Mr. Shiner [2nd man], according to the interesting rule laid down, deserted his own partner and made off down the middle with this fair one [1st woman] of Dick's--the pair appearing from the top of the room like two persons tripping down a lane to be married. Dick trotted behind with what was intended to be a look of composure...Then they turned and came back, when Dick...joined hands with the rival and formed the arch over his lady's head, which presumably gave the figure its name....
