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'''MAIDEN'S BLUSH, THE.''' AKA - "Bump Her Belly." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The alternate title, given along with the proper title by John Young in his '''Second Volume of the Dancing Master''', third edition (1718, p. 95) gives a more lascivious twist to the name of the tune. Young printed the tune and titles in his fourth and last edition of the work, printed in 1728.
|f_annotation='''MAIDEN'S BLUSH [1], THE.''' AKA - "Bump Her Belly." AKA and see "[[Brickfields (The)]]." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. Under the title "Bump Her Belly" the tune was first printed by John Young in his '''Second Volume of the Dancing Master''' [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/] (1710), by which title it also appeared in the second edition of that volume, printed in 1714. However, with the third edition (1718, p. 95, and in the fourth edition of 1728) the title changed to "The Maiden's Blush," and "Bump Her Belly" was relegated to alternate title status. Under the title "Bump Her Belly" the tune appears in Walsh & Hare's '''The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master''' (1719, p. 114, reissued in 1754).
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"Bump Her Belly" certainly  gives a more lascivious twist to the blushing maiden of the tune, for to 'belly-bump' or 'bump her belly' was slang for coitus, and 'to get a belly-bumper' was to become pregnant with child. 
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There is a song for which the indicated tune is "Bump Her Belly" in J. Hippisley's opera '''Sequal to Flora''' (1732) that begins:
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''Printed sources'': Sharp ('''Country Dance Tunes'''), 1909; p. 50.  
''What lusty young babies by us will be got,''<br>  
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MAIDEN'S BLUSH [1], THE. AKA - "Bump Her Belly." AKA and see "Brickfields (The)." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. Under the title "Bump Her Belly" the tune was first printed by John Young in his Second Volume of the Dancing Master [1] (1710), by which title it also appeared in the second edition of that volume, printed in 1714. However, with the third edition (1718, p. 95, and in the fourth edition of 1728) the title changed to "The Maiden's Blush," and "Bump Her Belly" was relegated to alternate title status. Under the title "Bump Her Belly" the tune appears in Walsh & Hare's The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719, p. 114, reissued in 1754).

"Bump Her Belly" certainly gives a more lascivious twist to the blushing maiden of the tune, for to 'belly-bump' or 'bump her belly' was slang for coitus, and 'to get a belly-bumper' was to become pregnant with child.

There is a song for which the indicated tune is "Bump Her Belly" in J. Hippisley's opera Sequal to Flora (1732) that begins:

What lusty young babies by us will be got,


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Printed sources : - Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 50.






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