tune page
the Cordwainer's March.
Found in melnets_big_abc_file.abc
from the John Chambers abc collection
X:13059 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] 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 :|