The Ulverston Volunteers jig

There is 1 recording of this tune.

The Ulverston Volunteers has been added to 3 tunebooks.

One setting

X: 1
T: The Ulverston Volunteers
R: jig

M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
d|:BGG dGG|e2 f g2 e|dGG eGG|FAA A2 d|
BGG dGG|e2 f gfe|dBG AGA|BGG G2 d:|
|:g2 d B2 G|efg dBG|ceB BdA|AGA A2 d|
BGG dGG|e2 f gfe|dBG AGA|1 BGG G2 d:|2 BGG G3||

Three comments

Cast them as cousins…

https://thesession.org/tunes/2744

Source?

Pretty please?

S: / B: “A Northern Lass: Traditional Dance Music of North-West England”

Compiled and edited by Jamie Knowles
Dave Mallinson Publications, 1995
ISBN: 1-899512-16-0
Currently out of circulation…

Page 42: “Ulverston Volunteers” ~ note-for-note as given here…

There are no other notes in the book specific to this tune or its origins… I’ll check some other sources.

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