the Cordwainer's March.

X:6652
T:the Cordwainer's March.
T:Mr Nairne's Strathspey [Daniel MacLaren]
T:the Revd. Patrick Macdonald of Kilmore [Alexander Campbell]
T:Lord Balgonie's Favorite [Niel and Nathaniel Gow]
T:Gloomy Winter [Robert Tannahill]
T:the theme from The Piano [Michael Nyman]
O:england
N:One of several tunes for the parades of the shoemakers' guild.
N:Probably the most-plagiarized tune in history; Aird's is the
N:earliest notated version, with another in Sharpe of Hoddom's MS
N:from about the same period (probably adapted from Aird's).  In
N:fact I wrote it myself, of course.
M:C
L:1/8
K:BMin
F|B2B>c TA>GFF | d2         d>e           c>BAA |\
B2B>c  A>GFF |(B/c/d/B/) (c/d/e/[c/f/]) d2  d::
(f/e/)|ffff  (g/f/e/d/) c>d    |eeee          (f/e/)(d/c/) (B/c/)(d/e/)|\
f2B>c  A>G       F(d/e/)|fe/d/ e/d/c/d/ B2           B         :|

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/tunebook.org.uk/tunebook/03207
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/tunebook.org.uk/tunebook/05290
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/tunebook.org.uk/tunebook/06427
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/tunebook.org.uk/tunebook/08178
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/tunebook.org.uk/tunebook/09620

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