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'''JACK AT GREENWICH.''' English, Air (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song "Jack at Greenwich" was written by Charles Dibdin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dibdin] ( | '''JACK AT GREENWICH.''' English, Air (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song "Jack at Greenwich" was written by Charles Dibdin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dibdin] (1745–1814), a popular and prolific songwriter renowned for his sea songs. The first stanza of the song (which tells of Jack's gradual disablements) goes: | ||
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''We tars are all for fun and glee, | [[File:dibdin.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Charles Dibdin]] | ||
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''We tars are all for fun and glee,—''<br> | |||
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''A splinter queer'd my larboard gam,''<br> | ''A splinter queer'd my larboard gam,''<br> | ||
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The song was written for Dibdin's three act entertainment '''The Cake-House''', produced in 1800. | The song was written for Dibdin's three act entertainment '''The Cake-House''', produced in 1800. | ||
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''Printed sources'': Dibdin & Hogarth ('''The Songs of Charles Dibdin | ''Printed sources'': | ||
Dibdin & Hogarth ('''The Songs of Charles Dibdin'''), 1848; pp. 253–255. | |||
Manson ('''Hamilton's Universal Tune-Book, vol. 2'''), 1846; p. 15. | |||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Tundra | ''Recorded sources'': | ||
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Tundra – "Songs from Greenwich." | |||
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JACK AT GREENWICH. English, Air (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song "Jack at Greenwich" was written by Charles Dibdin [1] (1745–1814), a popular and prolific songwriter renowned for his sea songs. The first stanza of the song (which tells of Jack's gradual disablements) goes:
We tars are all for fun and glee,—
A hornpipe was my notion;
Time was I'd dance with any he
That sails the salt sea ocean:
I'd tip the roll, the slide, the reel,
Back, forward, in the middle;
And roast the pig, and toe and heel,
All going with the fiddle.
But one day told a shot to ram,
To chase for foe advancing,
A splinter queer'd my larboard gam,
And, damme! spoil'd my dancing.
The song was written for Dibdin's three act entertainment The Cake-House, produced in 1800.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:
Dibdin & Hogarth (The Songs of Charles Dibdin), 1848; pp. 253–255.
Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune-Book, vol. 2), 1846; p. 15.
Recorded sources: Tundra – "Songs from Greenwich."