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'''YORKSHIREMAN IN LONDON, THE.''' English, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Originally set in the key of ‘G’ in Gibbons’ mss. The are some similarities to "[[Because He was a | |f_annotation='''YORKSHIREMAN IN LONDON, THE.''' English, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Originally set in the key of ‘G’ in Gibbons’ mss. The are some similarities to "[[Because He was a Bonny Lad]]." There were songs called "A Yorkshireman in London." One was printed a volume called '''A Garland of New Songs''', printed by J. Marshall in the Old Flesh-Market, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, c. 1810, that begins: | ||
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<br> | ''When first in London I arriv'd''<br> | ||
< | ''On a visit, on a visit;''<br> | ||
< | ''When first in London I arriv'd''<br> | ||
'' | '' 'Midst heavy rain and thunder,''<br> | ||
''I 'spied a bonny lass in green,''<br> | |||
''The bonniest lass I ever seen,''<br> | |||
''I'd oft heard tell of a beauteous queen,''<br> | |||
''Dash me, thinks I, I've found her.''<br> | |||
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Another, dating to c. 1806, was written by Mr. John Major, was called "The Yorkshireman in London: or, Humphrey Hobnail's return from the Play," which was "sung by Mr. Emery, with unbounded applause, at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden." | |||
|f_source_for_notated_version=the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Sumner ('''Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript'''), 1997; p. 5. | |||
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YORKSHIREMAN IN LONDON, THE. English, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Originally set in the key of ‘G’ in Gibbons’ mss. The are some similarities to "Because He was a Bonny Lad." There were songs called "A Yorkshireman in London." One was printed a volume called A Garland of New Songs, printed by J. Marshall in the Old Flesh-Market, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, c. 1810, that begins:
When first in London I arriv'd
On a visit, on a visit;
When first in London I arriv'd
'Midst heavy rain and thunder,
I 'spied a bonny lass in green,
The bonniest lass I ever seen,
I'd oft heard tell of a beauteous queen,
Dash me, thinks I, I've found her.
Another, dating to c. 1806, was written by Mr. John Major, was called "The Yorkshireman in London: or, Humphrey Hobnail's return from the Play," which was "sung by Mr. Emery, with unbounded applause, at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden."
