Two designs of your song is actually understood, the initial more than out-of A choice Distinct 180 Loyal Songs , 3rd ed
South-west-Country Jig,
[The fresh track here, had written a little while between 1672 and you will 1685, no matter if purportedly place in south-west-Country, spends Scots dialect, and many of labels these are merely Scots, and its own merry Scotch tune must have be connected with some before Scots song. , p. 117, 1685 (negligently etched), plus the next from the Dancing Master , Vol. We, twelfth ed., 1703, and you will subsequent editions. The second is even regarding Compleat Nation Dancing Master , We, p. 30, 1718. There appears to be zero head number of the tune in Scotland, nonetheless it might have been recommended your song ily off (originally) pipe sounds, all found afterwards, including “Mad Moll,” “The new Virgin Queen,” “Red-colored Stockings,” “The new Dusty Miller,” “Drops/Dribbles off Brandy,” “Hello my Nancy,” “Brose and Butter,” “Journey a mile,” “The latest Distant Marriage,” “Cumilium,” and a few others.
The back ground of the track here, and some of your verses, might have provided the inspiration of your own Scots ditty known as “Golf ball off Kirriemuir,” whilst the tune of your latter is not “With Aley, Aley,” but a different sort of relatively once the dated, “Bonny Jean out of Aberdeen.” As well as a separate version of this new tune pick here “Our company is gayly but really,” part of that can be on the 17th century.]