Come Dance and Sing
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Come Let Us Dance and Sing", also known as "Come Let Us Dance and Sing",<br> "Come Dance and Sing", "La Belle Catharine", "Inkle and Yarico", "Rising Sun"<br> and "Sixteenth of October" is an English, Scottish and New England reel and<br> country dance tune in D Major. The parts are AB (Kerr), AABB (Brody, Kennedy,<br> Miller & Perron, Raven) or AABA (Trim).<br> Bayard (1981) dates the tune from the 18th century, and says it has been a<br> much-favored tune of fifers. Jim Taylor (1996) notes that it was played by<br> fifers in the early 19th century and in the American Civil War.<br> It was published in Preston's New Instruction for the German Flute (London, 1780)<br> and in the c. 1785 music copybook of Sally Pickman and Rebecca Taylor Pickman,<br> keyboard players from Salem Massachusetts.<br> Fennig's All Stars recorded it and referred to it as "Farting in the Bathtub".<br> The banjo tablature is from John Letscher.<br> It was also printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Carlin's English Concertina (1977),<br> Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune Book, vol. 2 (1954),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880),<br> Miller & Perron's New England Fiddlers Repertoire (1983),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and<br> Trim's The Musical Legacy of Thomas Hardy (1990) (appears as "La Belle Catharine").<br> It was recorded by Delaware Water Gap on String Band Music (1977),<br> Fennigs All Stars on The Hammered Dulcimer (1973) and<br> Jim Taylor on The Civil War Collection (1996).<br>
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