Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on August 16th 2004 by alexboydell.
This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.
Also known as Tobacco's Dear.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Dear Tobacco
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
eAAc BG A2|eAAf gfed|eAAc BG B2| G2 GB dedB:|
efge fga2| efge dedB|efge fg A2| G2 GB dedB:|
Dear Tobacco
The 3rd tune from a set played by the
High Level Ranter's " Four in a Bar" As in the Charleton Memorial Book..In John Hall's Manuscript (1833) bar 2 the g is a crotchet with "fed" triplet
# Posted on August 16th 2004 by alexboydell
Tobacco's Dear
In John Hall's it appears as "Tobacco's Dear". There's a couple of other differences in that version as well, namely in the 3rd bar of each part:
|:eAAc BGA2|eAAf g2 (3fed|eAAc BGA2|G2GB dedB:|
|:efge fga2|efge dedB|efge fga2|G2GB dedB:|
Apparently it's not recorded anywhere else, so these 2 versions are all we have to go on.
Maybe you could put it with "The Ale Is Dear"!
# Posted on August 17th 2004 by Dow
Dear Tobacco
I,ve just remembered a Lakeland version of this tune(from Matthew Bethem of Towcett)
||:BEEF G/F/E/D/F2| BEEc dcBA|BEEF G/F/E/D/F2|
D>E/dc dcBA:||
||:Beef g/f/e/d/E2|Beef gefd|Bdde d/c/B/c/ d2|
faaf dcBa:||
# Posted on August 18th 2004 by alexboydell
Dear Tobacco
The Lakeland version above (or something pretty close) is on the Boat Band CD, a "trip to the lakes" as a polka.
# Posted on August 14th 2007 by spindizzy