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Tune Annotations:	'''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": <blockquote> ''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> </blockquote>
Source for notated version:	William Vickers music manuscript collection [http://www.asaplive.com/archive/detail.asp?id=R0305703] (1770, Northumberland) [Seattle]
Printed sources:	Seattle ('''Great Northern Tune Book/William Vickers'''), 1987, Part 2; No. 231.
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