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Newcastle (G)
Found in Newcastle.abc
from the John Chambers abc collection
X: 1 T: Newcastle (G) P: 3x M: 4/4 L: 1/8 O: Playford 1651 B: Playford 1651 H: Simpson feels that the surviving tune is not the one which had some H: currency in Elizabethan days. He points out that wrenchings of accent H: are necessary to accomplish the fit of Playford's dance tune to a H: curious fragment of text found in the 18th century Percy folio MS, a H: source of dubious authenticity itself. H: __ Came you not from Newcastle? __ H: __ Came yee not there away? &c __ H: It is quite possible that H: this dance was inspired by William, Duke of Newcastle, a royalist who H: remained in London and bent his interests towards the theatre during H: the interregnum. K: G |: D2 \ | "G"B2d2 "D7"G2A2 | "G"G3A G2D2 | "G"B2d2 G2d2 | "C"e2g4 fe \ | "G"d2B2 A2G2 | "C"E2 e4 dc | "G"d2B2 "D7"A2>G2 | "G"G6 :| |: ef \ | "G"gfed g3B | "C"A2g4 A2 | "G"G3A B2F2 | "C"E2 e4 f2 \ | "G"gfed g3B | "Am"A2A2 c3d | e2B2 "D7"A3G | "G"G6 |]
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