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|f_annotation='''WE'VE CHEATED THE PARSON [1].''' AKA - "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play." AKA and see "[[Boys and Girls to Play]]." English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. There are two 6/4 or 6/8 melodies called "We've Cheated the Parson." The older one was printed by Henry Playford in '''Apollo's Banquet: The Second Book''' in 1691 and appears in numerous ballad operas [see "[[We've Cheated the Parson (2)]]"]. A second melody, the subject of this entry, was printed in John Gay's '''Polly''' (1729, Air XLVI) and in London publisher John Young's '''Third Volume of the Dancing Master''' (1628, under the title "Girls and Boys, come out to play: the new way". It was called "the new way" in Young's volume because the first part of the older tune was abandoned, while the second strain was attached to a different first strain.|f_source_for_notated_version=
'''WE'VE CHEATED THE PARSON.''' English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "We Cheated the Parson" is also called "[[Your Hay it is Mow'd]]" or "[[Harvest Song]]" and was a favorite melody from '''King Arthur''', set by English composer Henry Purcell in 1691 to a libretto by John Dryden. It appeared printed on broadside sheets soon afterward ("A New Playhouse song of the husband's delight, suiting the humours of a country Life") and was the vehicle for songs in ballad operas, such as Air XLVI in John Gay's ballad opera '''Polly''' (1729). Dryden's words go:
|f_printed_sources=Elias Howe ('''Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7'''), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 632. Wilson ('''A Companion to the Ball Room'''), London, 1816; p. 92.
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''Your hay it is mow'd, and your corn is reap'd;''<br>
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''Your barns will be full, and your hovels heap'd.''<br>
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''Come, boys, come; Come, boys, come;''<br>
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''And merrily roar out our harvest home.''<br>
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''We've cheated the parson, we'll cheat him again,''<br>
''For why should a blockhead have one in ten?''<br>
''One in ten, one in ten,''<br>
''For why should a blockhead have one in ten?''<br>
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''For prating so long like a book-learn'd sot''<br>
''Till pudding and dumpling are burn'd to pot''<br>
''Burn't to sot, burn't to pot''<br>
''Till pudding and dumpling are burn'd to pot''<br>
''Till pudding and dumpling are burn'd to pot''<br>
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''We'll toss off our ale till we cannot stand''<br>
''And hey for the honour of old England''<br>
''Old England, old England''<br>
''And hey for the honour of old England''<br>
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''Printed sources'': Wilson ('''A Companion to the Ball Room'''), London, 1816; p. 92.
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WE'VE CHEATED THE PARSON [1]. AKA - "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play." AKA and see "Boys and Girls to Play." English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. There are two 6/4 or 6/8 melodies called "We've Cheated the Parson." The older one was printed by Henry Playford in Apollo's Banquet: The Second Book in 1691 and appears in numerous ballad operas [see "We've Cheated the Parson (2)"]. A second melody, the subject of this entry, was printed in John Gay's Polly (1729, Air XLVI) and in London publisher John Young's Third Volume of the Dancing Master (1628, under the title "Girls and Boys, come out to play: the new way". It was called "the new way" in Young's volume because the first part of the older tune was abandoned, while the second strain was attached to a different first strain.


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Printed sources : - Elias Howe (Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 632. Wilson (A Companion to the Ball Room), London, 1816; p. 92.






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