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'''WOODLANDS'''. English, Air (3/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB.  A latter 18th century song printed in songsters and vocal collections such as '''Goldfinch, or New Modern Songster''' (c. 1785).  The words go:
'''WOODLANDS'''. AKA - "[[How sweet in the woodlands]]." English, Air (3/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB.  A latter 18th century song printed in songsters and vocal collections such as '''Goldfinch, or New Modern Songster''' (1785), '''The Universal Songster''' (1828) and similar issuings.  The words go:
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''How sweet is the woodland with fleet hound and horn,''<br>
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''Tho' Daphne's pursu'd, 'tis Myrtilla that dies.''<br>
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The tune also was entered into the music manuscript copybook of Eleazer Cary (c. 1797-1799) of Mansfield, Connecticut.  
The tune also was entered into a number of musicians' music manuscript and copybook collections on both sides of the Atlantic, including the music copybook of Eleazer Cary (c. 1797-1799) of Mansfield, Connecticut, and the late 18th century music manuscript collection of Henry Livingstone (as "How sweet the Woodlands", p. 204) of Poughkeepsie, New York.  
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : -  Huntington ('''William Litten's Tune Book'''), 1977; p. 43.
<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : -  Huntington ('''William Litten's Tune Book'''), 1977; p. 43.  Riley ('''Riley's Flute Melodies, vol. 2'''), 1817; p. 5.  
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WOODLANDS. AKA - "How sweet in the woodlands." English, Air (3/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A latter 18th century song printed in songsters and vocal collections such as Goldfinch, or New Modern Songster (1785), The Universal Songster (1828) and similar issuings. The words go:

How sweet is the woodland with fleet hound and horn,
To waken shrill echo and taste the fresh morn;
But hard is the chance my fond heart must pursue,
For Daphne, fair Daphne, is lost to my view.

Assist me, chaste Diana, the nymph to regain,
More wild than the roebuck, and wing'd with disdain;
In pity o'ertake her who wounds as she flies,
Tho' Daphne's pursu'd, 'tis Myrtilla that dies.

The tune also was entered into a number of musicians' music manuscript and copybook collections on both sides of the Atlantic, including the music copybook of Eleazer Cary (c. 1797-1799) of Mansfield, Connecticut, and the late 18th century music manuscript collection of Henry Livingstone (as "How sweet the Woodlands", p. 204) of Poughkeepsie, New York.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - the music manuscript copybook of ship’s fiddler William Litten, who finally settled in Martha’s Vineyard [Huntington].

Printed sources : - Huntington (William Litten's Tune Book), 1977; p. 43. Riley (Riley's Flute Melodies, vol. 2), 1817; p. 5.

Recorded sources: -



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