Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 22nd 2012 by Nick Molyneux.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Pleasures Of Salisbury, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
FGA Bcd | efg fdA | BAB Acd | AGF E2D |
FGA Bcd | efg fdA | BAB Agf |1 edc d2A :|2 edc dcd||
|: ecA ecA | fdA fdA | Bcd AGF |GEE E2E |
FED GFE | AGF BAG | Bgf edc |1 d3 dcd :|2 d3 z2d ||
The Pleasures of Salisbury
This tune is mentioned on this site as being in William Winter's Quantocks tune book. The title seems a bit ironic to me, because I live not far from Salisbury, and it's never struck me as a particularly pleasurable place. Unless you are especially fond of cathedrals. I normally just pass through on my way to the Pleasures of Devon or Cornwall.
# Posted on January 22nd 2012 by Nick Molyneux
Maybe the pleasure eventually went out of it.
# Posted on January 22nd 2012 by Weejie
There's a Salisbury here in Maryland (US), which is home to Purdue chicken (tasty), a university (bit of a party school), and is pretty close to a popular beach resort. Sounds a bit more pleasurable than the original town you describe Nick. I know this obviously has nothing to do with the original source of the tune unless William Winter was some sort of transcontinental future-predicting visionary. If nothing else, I guess the tune would be less ironic around my neck of the woods.
# Posted on January 22nd 2012 by Jason G
Maybe there was one particular source for the author's 'pleasures'...
# Posted on January 22nd 2012 by ceolachan
"Maybe there was one particular source for the author's 'pleasures'... "
- Probably a reference to his visits to "Old Sarum"
# Posted on January 23rd 2012 by Mix O'Lydian
Alternative verison - I find that the pleasures are greater when the last line is played like this...
FEF GFG | AGA BAB | Bgf edc |1 d3 dcd :|2 d3 z2d ||
# Posted on January 25th 2012 by Nick Molyneux
version, I mean...
# Posted on January 25th 2012 by Nick Molyneux