Nice work Frank.

The up tempo feel of The Girl I Left Behind Me (known as Brighton Camp around 
here, I live ten miles from Brighton) is anticipation -

And if the night be ever so dark
Or ever so wet and windy
I must return to the Brighton Camp
And the girl I left behind me.

Adjust windy to rhyme. That was the pronunciation in Shakespeares time.

Technical point.  Morpeth Rant isn't a hornpipe.  It's a rant, more like a 
reel.

King of the Fairies English?!  And so jolly.  I played this last night along 
with about twenty other people in a warm friendly pub and I still felt 
shivers down my spine.  This is a tune you do not play at midnight in a 
churchyard under a full moon for fear of who (or what) you might summon up.

Bryan

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