Charlie Foster's Lancer's Set Tune

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T:Charlie Foster's Lancer's Set Tune
% NFF Book 2009
S:collected from Charlie Foster, (1908-?), Tumbarumba, NSW
S:John Meredith Collection, NLA, Bib ID: 3408460
B:J Meredith, R Covell, & P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987, p260, ISBN 0 86840 018
Z:Arr. David Johnson
N:The original is in F.
N:Older related tunes:
N: - Niel Gow, First Collection Strathspey Reels (1784), as "Farewell to Whisky"
N:Related tunes collected in Australia:
N: - by Alan Musgrove, from Bill case, Mt Gambier, SA as "Bill Case's Heel and Toe Polka"
N: - by Chris Sullivan, from Dooley Chapman, Dunedoo, NSW, as "Dooley's Polka"
H:Charlie learned this tune from his father, who was born in Mansfield, Vic.
F:https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2658606
F:https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-215892304/listen
O:Australia, NSW, Tumbarumba
R:Set Tune
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:G
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Charlie Foster's Lancer's Set Tune - played by Greg O'Leary

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| Charlie Foster | John Meredith Collection |