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|f_annotation='''MY USELESS SCRIP(T).''' AKA - "Farewel my useless scrip." Scottish, English; Air (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. | |f_annotation='''MY USELESS SCRIP(T).''' AKA - "Farewel my useless scrip." Scottish, English; Air (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Farewel my useless scrip" was a song attributed to 'Mr. Forcer', printed in Thomas D'Urfey's '''Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy vol. VI''' (1719-20, p. 320). It was an older piece, however, and was published (as "A New Song set by Mr. Forcer") in '''The Alamode Musician'''[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Alamode_Musician_Being_a_New_Collect/N5Ax4hkNfoUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22farewell+my+useless+scrip%22+%C2%A0&pg=PP15&printsec=frontcover] (1698), printed by Henry Playford. The words begin: | ||
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''Farewell my useless scrip and poor unheeded flocks,''<br> | |||
''No more you'll round me trip, nor cloath me with your Locks,''<br> | |||
''Few by yon purling stream where Jockey, where Jockey first I knew,''<br> | |||
''I only think, I only think, I only think on him,''<br> | |||
''I cannot, cannot, cannot think of you.''<br> | |||
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Forcer (c. 1650-c. 1705) is mentioned by Hawkins in his '''History of Music''' as 'a musician and composer of many songs printed in the '''Theater of Musick''' published by Henry Playford and John Carr in the years 1685, 1686 and 1687'. He was an organist at Dulwich for a few years, and became c. 1697 a joint lessee of Sadlers Wells music gardens. English composer John Blow (1648-1708) fashioned a setting of Forcer's song in 1699. | |||
|f_printed_sources=David Young ('''A Collection of Scotch Airs with the latest Variations''', AKA - The | |||
McFarlane Manuscript), c. 1741; No. 141, p. 197. | |||
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MY USELESS SCRIP(T). AKA - "Farewel my useless scrip." Scottish, English; Air (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Farewel my useless scrip" was a song attributed to 'Mr. Forcer', printed in Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy vol. VI (1719-20, p. 320). It was an older piece, however, and was published (as "A New Song set by Mr. Forcer") in The Alamode Musician[1] (1698), printed by Henry Playford. The words begin:
Farewell my useless scrip and poor unheeded flocks,
No more you'll round me trip, nor cloath me with your Locks,
Few by yon purling stream where Jockey, where Jockey first I knew,
I only think, I only think, I only think on him,
I cannot, cannot, cannot think of you.
Forcer (c. 1650-c. 1705) is mentioned by Hawkins in his History of Music as 'a musician and composer of many songs printed in the Theater of Musick published by Henry Playford and John Carr in the years 1685, 1686 and 1687'. He was an organist at Dulwich for a few years, and became c. 1697 a joint lessee of Sadlers Wells music gardens. English composer John Blow (1648-1708) fashioned a setting of Forcer's song in 1699.
