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'''NONG TONG PAW.''' AKA - "Nong Tong Pan." English, Air, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Mounseer Nong tong paw" is the name of a comic song written by composer and performer Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) for his musical comedy "The General Election" (in which he sang the song). He was one of the premier song composers for the English stage in the late 18th century, many of whose works were absorbed into traditional repertoire.  Dibdin's original song mocks English and French stereotypes in five eight-line stanzas, particularly "John Bull's" inability to speak or understand French during a trip to Paris. The title is the protagonist's attempt to make sense of the French phrase ''"Monsieur, je vous n'entends pas"'' ("Monsieur, I don't understand you").  
|f_annotation='''NONG TONG PAW.''' AKA - "Mounseer Nong Tong Paw," "Nong Tong Pan." English, Air, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Mounseer Nong tong paw" is the name of a comic song written by composer and performer [[wikipedia:Charles Dibdin|Charles Dibdin]] (1745–1814) for his musical comedy "The General Election" (in which he sang the song), staged in 1796. He was one of the premier song composers for the English stage in the late 18th century, many of whose works were absorbed into traditional repertoire.  Dibdin's original song mocks English and French stereotypes in five eight-line stanzas, particularly "John Bull's" inability to speak or understand French during a trip to Paris. The title is the protagonist's attempt to make sense of the French phrase ''"Monsieur, je vous n'entends pas"'' ("Monsieur, I don't understand you").  
[[File:dibdin.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Charles Dibdin]]
[[File:dibdin.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Charles Dibdin]]
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''John Bull, for pastime, took a prance,''<br>
John Bull, for pastime, took a prance,<br>
''Some time ago, to visit France,''<br>
Some time ago, to visit France,<br>
''To talk of Sciences and Arts,''<br>
To talk of Sciences and Arts,<br>
''And knowledge gain in foreign parts:''<br>
And knowledge gain in foreign parts:<br>
''Monsieur obsequious heard him speak,''<br>
Monsieur obsequious heard him speak,<br>
''And answered him in heathen-Greek,''<br>
And answered him in heathen-Greek,<br>
''To all he ask'd--to all he saw--''<br>
To all he ask'd—to all he saw—<br>
'' 'Twas "Monsieur, Je vous n'en tende pas!''<br>
'Twas "Monsieur, Je vous n'en tende pas!<br>
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''John to the Palais Royal come,''<br>
John to the Palais Royal come,<br>
''Its splendour almost struck him dumb;''<br>
Its splendour almost struck him dumb;<br>
''"I say, whose house is that, there, here?''<br>
"I say, whose house is that, there, here?<br>
''Hosse! Je vous n'en tends pas, Monsieur:"''<br>
Hosse! Je vous n'en tends pas, Monsieur:"<br>
''"What, Nong tong Paw, again!" cries John,''<br>
"What, Nong tong Paw, again!" cries John,<br>
''"This fellow is some mighty don,''<br>
"This fellow is some mighty don,<br>
''No doubt he's plenty for the maw,''<br>
No doubt he's plenty for the maw,<br>
''I'd breakfast with this Nong Tong Paw.''<br>
I'd breakfast with this Nong Tong Paw.<br>
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The melody was also entered into the c. 1797-1814 music copybooks of fiddler Ishmael Spicer, of Chatham, Conn., J. Jones (north Shropshire, 1801), William Clavert (Yorkshire, 1812), and R. Hughes (Whitchurch, Shropshire, 1823).  
A poem written by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley as a child, "Mounseer Nongtongpaw", is based on Dibdin's song.
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The melody was also entered into the c. 1797–1814 music copybooks of fiddler Ishmael Spicer, of Chatham, Conn., J. Jones (north Shropshire, 1801), William Clavert (Yorkshire, 1812), and R. Hughes (Whitchurch, Shropshire, 1823).
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|f_printed_sources= Preston ('''Preston's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1800'''), 1800.
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''Printed sources'': Preston ('''Preston's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1800'''), 1800;
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NONG TONG PAW. AKA - "Mounseer Nong Tong Paw," "Nong Tong Pan." English, Air, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Mounseer Nong tong paw" is the name of a comic song written by composer and performer Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) for his musical comedy "The General Election" (in which he sang the song), staged in 1796. He was one of the premier song composers for the English stage in the late 18th century, many of whose works were absorbed into traditional repertoire. Dibdin's original song mocks English and French stereotypes in five eight-line stanzas, particularly "John Bull's" inability to speak or understand French during a trip to Paris. The title is the protagonist's attempt to make sense of the French phrase "Monsieur, je vous n'entends pas" ("Monsieur, I don't understand you").

Charles Dibdin

The word begin:

John Bull, for pastime, took a prance,
Some time ago, to visit France,
To talk of Sciences and Arts,
And knowledge gain in foreign parts:
Monsieur obsequious heard him speak,
And answered him in heathen-Greek,
To all he ask'd—to all he saw—
'Twas "Monsieur, Je vous n'en tende pas!

John to the Palais Royal come,
Its splendour almost struck him dumb;
"I say, whose house is that, there, here?
Hosse! Je vous n'en tends pas, Monsieur:"
"What, Nong tong Paw, again!" cries John,
"This fellow is some mighty don,
No doubt he's plenty for the maw,
I'd breakfast with this Nong Tong Paw.

A poem written by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley as a child, "Mounseer Nongtongpaw", is based on Dibdin's song.

The melody was also entered into the c. 1797–1814 music copybooks of fiddler Ishmael Spicer, of Chatham, Conn., J. Jones (north Shropshire, 1801), William Clavert (Yorkshire, 1812), and R. Hughes (Whitchurch, Shropshire, 1823).


Additional notes



Printed sources : - Preston (Preston's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1800), 1800.



See also listing at :
See wikipedia article "Mounseer Nongtongpaw" for more information on the Mary Shelley attribution.



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