Dashing White Sergeant

X: 1
T: Dashing White Sergeant
B: RSCDS 3-2
R: reel
N: RSCDS #3 (in F)
N: Hunter #320 (in F) (no notes)
N: Kennedy V.1 #59 p.29 (in D)
W:
W: Now the fiddler's ready, let us all begin,
W: So step it out and step it in,
W: To the merry music of the violin
W: We'll dance the hours away
W: Katie and Peggy and Patsy and Coll,
W: Calum and Peter and Flora and Moll,
W: Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance!
W: Dance away the hours together!
W: Dance 'til dawn be in the sky,
W: What care you and what care I,
W: Hearts a-beatin', spirits high,
W: We'll dance, dance, dance!
N:
N: The lyrics and tune were composed in the late 18th century by General
H: Burgoyne, infamous during the American War of Independence.
N:
Z: John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 2/4
L: 1/16
K: D
|: "D"D2D2 DEFG | A^GAB A2fe | d2B2 A2F2 | "Em"B2E2 "A7"EGFE |
|  "D"D2D2 DEFG | A^GAB A2f2 | "E7"e2d2 c2B2 |1 "A7"A2AB AGFE :|2 "A"A6 E2 |]
[| "A"A2AB c2cd | e2ec A2A2  | "Bm"BABc dcde | f2fd B2BB |
| "A7"c2AA "D"d2AA | "A7"e2AA "D"f2AA | "G"g2f2 e2d2 | "A7"c2B2 A2G2 |
| "D"F2d2 dcde | d2A2 A4 | "Em"B2e2 edef | e2B2 B4 |
| "D"A2d2 dcde | f2d2 dcde | f2z2 "A7"a2z2 | "D"Hd2cBAGFE |]

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/SCD/Book03/0029
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/SCD/Book03/0135
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/SCD/Book03/03021-Dashing_White_Sergeant-6/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/SCD/Book03/DashingWhiteSergeantS-JC/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/SCD/misc/DashingWhiteSergeantS/0000