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'''BOATMAN [1]''' (Boate Man). English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 or 6/4 time). D Major (Fleming-Williams): C Major (Barnes, Chappell, Karpeles, Sharp). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Chappell): ABB (Sharp): AABB (Barnes, Fleming-Williams, Karpeles). The air was first published by John Playford in the first edition of '''The English Dancing Master''' (1651) and again in his '''Musick's Recreation on the Viol, Lyra-way''' (1661). | |f_annotation='''BOATMAN [1]''' (Boate Man). English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 or 6/4 time). D Major (Fleming-Williams): C Major (Barnes, Chappell, Karpeles, Sharp). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Chappell): ABB (Sharp): AABB (Barnes, Fleming-Williams, Karpeles). The air was first published (with directions for a country dance) by John Playford in the first edition of '''The English Dancing Master''' (1651) and again in his '''Musick's Recreation on the Viol, Lyra-way''' (1661), and it was retained in the series of editions of the '''Dancing Master''' through the 10th edition of 1698, published at the time by John's son, Henry Playford. A song to the tune was published by poet and playwright [[Wikipedia:Allan_Ramsay_(poet)]] (1686-1758) and published in his '''Tea-Table Miscellany''' (1724) and is titled "The Bonny Scot." It begins: | ||
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<br> | ''Ye gales that gently wave the sea''<br> | ||
< | ''And please the canny boatman''<br> | ||
< | ''Bear me frae hence and bring to me''<br> | ||
'' | ''My brave, my bonny Scot-man:''<br> | ||
<br> | ''In haly bands''<br> | ||
<br> | ''We join'd our hands''<br> | ||
< | ''Yet may not this discover''<br> | ||
''While parents rate''<br> | |||
''A large estate''<br> | |||
''Before a faithful lover.''<br> | |||
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|f_printed_sources= Barnes ('''English Country Dance Tunes'''), 1989. Chappell ('''Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 1'''), 1859; pp. 308-309. Fleming- Williams & Shaw ('''English Dance Airs; Popular Selection, Book 1'''), 1965; p. 7. Karpeles & Schofield ('''A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs'''), 1951; p. 18. Raven ('''English Country Dance Tunes'''), 1984; p. 37. Sharp ('''Country Dance Tunes'''), 1909; p. 43. | |||
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BOATMAN [1] (Boate Man). English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 or 6/4 time). D Major (Fleming-Williams): C Major (Barnes, Chappell, Karpeles, Sharp). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Chappell): ABB (Sharp): AABB (Barnes, Fleming-Williams, Karpeles). The air was first published (with directions for a country dance) by John Playford in the first edition of The English Dancing Master (1651) and again in his Musick's Recreation on the Viol, Lyra-way (1661), and it was retained in the series of editions of the Dancing Master through the 10th edition of 1698, published at the time by John's son, Henry Playford. A song to the tune was published by poet and playwright Wikipedia:Allan_Ramsay_(poet) (1686-1758) and published in his Tea-Table Miscellany (1724) and is titled "The Bonny Scot." It begins:
Ye gales that gently wave the sea
And please the canny boatman
Bear me frae hence and bring to me
My brave, my bonny Scot-man:
In haly bands
We join'd our hands
Yet may not this discover
While parents rate
A large estate
Before a faithful lover.
