21 Ene About Merry Musician , 1716, given that «This new Farmer’s Daughter of Merry Wakefield
New tune we have found from 1 of your single layer things, and there are duplicates of your own tune in John Gay's Brand new Begger's Opera , Sky #45, 1728, and you can Charles Coffey's This new Merry Cobler , Air #8, 1735
The brand new Shepherd sate him down, Brand new reasonable Housemaid she drew nigh He pull'd away his Bagpipes wond'rous sweet, And you can play'd Melodiously; He play'd their particular including a track, That he generated this fair Maid Play, O! brand new Musick off thy Bagpipes sweet, Produces all my personal Anxiety to Ring.
O! Shepherd, O! Shepherd, quoth she, If the date would but permit they; We hope today get involved in it myself o'er once again, To own anxiety I ought to disregard it, He play'd it over again, As he had complete ahead of, And you will gave it reasonable Maid far pleasure, It pleas'd their unique much more about.
My Dearest Swain quoth she, A good Thousand times adieu; And you will, if ever We chance to eliminate my Ways, To locate it, I'll come your way.
Cf. Simpson, BBBM, p. 4 "Ah Horrible bloody fate" [4/4]; Moving Master tune "Merry Milkmaids" [6/4]; Pamelia #75 [4/4]; SMM #373. A smaller track across the exact same contours try "Brand new Maid of Tottenham" inside the Choyce Drollery , 1656 and you will version adaptation so you're able to "London is actually a fine Town" inside Pills in order to Throw up Melancholy , IV, 1719. Very similar was "Brand new Hazlebury Girl" in Cecil Sharp's MSS and "The fresh new Good and the bad" when you look at the Purslow's Marrow Bones .
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