Tune Req: Around the World for Sport

Subject: Tune called 'Around the world for sport'
From: GUEST,Tina Smith Lewes England
Date: 26 May 00 - 05:36 AM

Can anyone help with the notes for a tune called "Around the world for sport" It was very popular in England a few years ago.

Subject: RE: Tune called 'Around the world for sport'
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 26 May 00 - 10:00 AM

Two versions -6/8 in G and 4/4 in Em- may be found through a search at  J C's Tunefinder, which is the best place to begin looking for tunes.

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Tune called 'Around the world for sport'
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 26 May 00 - 11:00 AM

Copies of two tunes of that title, c 1795 & 1805, are listed in the Irish tune index on my website. Both are 6/8 jigs. www.erols.com/olsonw

Subject: RE: Tune called 'Around the world for sport'
From: GUEST,Tina Smith
Date: 31 May 00 - 05:48 AM

Thanks to Malcolm Douglas and Bruce O