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'''LITTLE MAN AND MAID, THE.''' English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is a song air adapted for a country dance. The lyric begins: | |f_annotation='''LITTLE MAN AND MAID, THE.''' English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is a song air adapted for a country dance. The lyric begins: | ||
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The song was printed Thomas D'Urfey's '''Tea Table Miscellany''' (c. 1730's, and was attributed (in the 1764 edition) attributed in the 1764 edition to the Restoration wit, Sir Charles Sedley, who died in 1701. It later appeared in collections of children's rhymes and songs through the early 20th century, although with altered lyrics that replaced the mild sexual innuendo with more sanitized but violent images (see G. Legman's introduction to Sandra McCosh's book '''Children's Humor''', 1976 [http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1970s/1976--1979_chidrens_humour__sandra_mccosh_%28PB%29/1976_introduction_to_childrens_humour__g_legman/index.htm]) The Sedley lyric was printed in Alfred Moffat's '''British Nursery Rhymes (and a Collection of Old Jingles)''' (p. 11), where is was taken from an unnamed 18th century songbook. Moffat employed a different melody than that given by the Thompsons. | The song was printed Thomas D'Urfey's '''Tea Table Miscellany''' (c. 1730's, and was attributed (in the 1764 edition) attributed in the 1764 edition to the Restoration wit, Sir Charles Sedley, who died in 1701. It later appeared in collections of children's rhymes and songs through the early 20th century, although with altered lyrics that replaced the mild sexual innuendo with more sanitized but violent images (see G. Legman's introduction to Sandra McCosh's book '''Children's Humor''', 1976 [http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1970s/1976--1979_chidrens_humour__sandra_mccosh_%28PB%29/1976_introduction_to_childrens_humour__g_legman/index.htm]) The Sedley lyric was printed in Alfred Moffat's '''British Nursery Rhymes (and a Collection of Old Jingles)''' (p. 11), where is was taken from an unnamed 18th century songbook. Moffat employed a different melody than that given by the Thompsons. | ||
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|f_printed_sources=Thompson ('''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2'''), 1765; No. 64. | |||
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