View source for Annotation:You'll Never be Like My other Good Man

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|f_annotation='''YOU'LL NEVER BE LIKE MY OTHER GOOD MAN.''' English, Air and Jig (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Researcher and Northumbrian piper Matt Seattle posits this tune to be the air of a Scottish song called "And thou'lt ne'er be like my auld goodman," later published in Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum vol. IV''' (No. 318). However, the song in the '''Museum''' is "[[Auld Goodman (The)]]" has a melody unrelated to Vickers. It was originally published by poet Thomas D'Urfey in his '''Tea Table Miscellany''', and music was printed in Thomson's '''Orpheus Caledonius''' (1725). The song is a woman's blistering comparison of her new husband with her old one, and does contain the line "you'll never be like my other good man":
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''My heart, alake, is liken to break,''<br>
''When I think of my winsome John:''<br>
''His blinkan eye, and gate sae free,''<br>
''Was naething like thee, thou dosend drone;''<br>
''His rosie face, and flaxen hair,''<br>
''And a skin as white as ony swan,''<br>
''Was large and tall, and comely withall,''<br>
''And thou't never be like my auld goodman.''<br>
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|f_source_for_notated_version=William Vickers music manuscript collection [http://www.asaplive.com/archive/detail.asp?id=R0305703] (1770, Northumberland) [Seattle]
|f_printed_sources=Seattle ('''Great Northern Tune Book/William Vickers'''), 1987, Part 2; No. 231.
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