Mudcat Café message #66320

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Thread #9960 Message #66320
Posted By: Bruce O.
27-Mar-99 - 02:15 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Poor Old Horse (Mummer's Song)
Subject: Tune Add: POOR OLD HORSE (MUMMERS' SONG)

As far as I can tell there is no known tune for the one from Richmond given by Bell, = BSP in Margaret Dean-Smith's A Guide to English Folk Song Collections) There are other versions from a variety of locations in England.
X:1
T:Poor Old Horse
S:JFSS, #3, 1901, from Sussex
Q:120
L:1/4
M:4/4
K:Fmixolydian
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F2C2|EFDB,|C3(G/A/)|BABc|(FE2)C|FE(F/G/)A|\
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