View source for Annotation:Wappat the Widow my Lady

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|f_annotation='''WAPPAT THE WINDOW MY LADY.''' AKA – "Wap at the Widow," “[[Wap at the Window]],” “[[Wap at the Widow My Laddie]], "[[Widow (The)]]," "[[Widow's Laddie (The)]]."  Scottish, Air and Jig (6/8 tune). G Major (Manson, McGibbon, Oswald, Playford, Wright, Young): D Major (McGlashan, Walsh). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (Wright); ABCDE (Playford): AABB (McGlashan): AABBCCDD (McGibbon): AABBCCDDEEFFGG (Young). The tune appears in London publisher Henry Playford’s 1700 collection of Scottish dance tunes. McGlashan erroneously designates the tune as a Scottish Measure. The word ''wap'' in the original title (“[[Wap at the Widow]]”) was a euphemism for intercourse dating to Elizabethan times, and in slang usage through the mid-18th century. The title was perhaps deliberately 'cleansed' by converting ‘Widow’ to ‘Window’, or perhaps it was just a natural mishearing, for the older meaning of ''wap'' was to hit or strike a blow. 
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See "[[annotation:Widow (The)]]" for more on this tune, especially as an air in '''Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2''' (1733). 
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|f_printed_sources=Manson ('''Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book vol. 1'''), 1853; p. 183 (as "Wap at the Widow, My Laddie"). McGibbon ('''Scots Tunes, book II'''), c. 1746; p. 53. McGlashan ('''Collection of Scots Measures'''), 177?; p. 6 (appears as “Wap at the Widow my Laddie”). Oswald ('''Caledonian Pocket Companion Book 3'''), 1760; p. 18. Playford ('''A Collection of Original Scotch Tunes'''), 1700; No. 23, p. 10. Walsh ('''Caledonian Country Dances'''), c. 1745; p. 98. Daniel Wright ('''Aria di Camera'''), London, 1727; No. 21. David Young ('''A Collection of Scotch Airs with the latest Variations''', AKA - The McFarlane Manuscript), c. 1741; No. 85, p. 134. 
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