Portland Fancy

X: 1
T: Portland Fancy
O: Boston, 1847
B: Elias Howe "Drawing Room Dances" (Boston, 1859)
B: (Howe's was a reprint of Henri Cellarius's "Drawing Room Dances", 1847)
M: 6/8
N: A 4-phrase version exists
N: "Gigue des Sucres" is a Qu\'ebecois version of the first two strains.
R: jig
K: A
  "E7"E \
| "A"E2A E2A | EAB c2c | "D"dcd "E7"Bcd | "A"e2c "E"BAF \
| "A"E2A E2A | EAB c2c | "D"dcd "E7"BFG | "A"AcB A2 |]
   A \
| "A"a3- "D"agf | "A"ecf e3 | "E7"dBe d3  | "A"cde "D"f2"E7"e \
| "A"a3- "D"agf | "A"ecf e3 | "E7"edB EFG | "A"AcB A2 |]
K: D
|: "A7"F=G \
| "D"ABc d2e | f2g a3 | "Em"efg "A7"A{B}c{d}e | "D"f2{e}d "A7"AFG \
| "D"ABc d2e | f2g a3 | "Em"efg "A7"ABc | "D"dfe d :|

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/England/jig/Portland_Fancy1_A/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/England/jig/Portland_Fancy_1-A-48-3/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Scotland/jig/Portland_Fancy_1-A-48-3/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/jig1/Portland_Fancy_1-A-48-3/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/session/ECD/Portland_Fancy/Portland_Fancy_1-A-48-3/0000