Lord Harry the Swell

X:1
T:Lord Harry the Swell
M:6/8
L:1/8
N:Newton Heath, Lancashire, Rush-cart procession tune.
N:A version of “Old Rosin the Beau”.
N:"Smith-Williamson explained that 'for want of a name the tune had
N:used to be sung to some doggerel verses of the late Ben Brierley's...
N:composed when quite a young man at Failsworth" [Gilchrist].
B:Gilchrist – Journal of the English Folk Dance Society (1927, p. 25)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
G>FG BAG|.B d2 e3|d>BG GAB|(E3 E2)D|
G>FG B>AG|.B d2 e3|dBG AAB|1 (G3 G2)D:|2 (G3 G2)!fine!||
|:d|dBd dBd|g2e g2e|dBG GAB|(E3 E2)D|
G>FG BAG|B d2 e3|dBG AAB|1 (G3 G2):|2 (G3 G2)D!D.C.!||

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