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|f_track=Colemann-Tell Her I Am.mp3
|f_track=A Health to Betty.mp3
|f_pdf=Tell Her I Am.pdf
|f_pdf=A Health To Betty.pdf
|f_artwork=Michael Coleman.png
|f_artwork=Thomas-DUrfey.jpg
|f_tune_name=Tell her I am
|f_tune_name=Health to Betty
|f_track_title=Tell_Her_I_Am_(1)
|f_track_title=Health_to_Betty_(A)
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|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/michaelcoleman-scmusic Michael Coleman]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/user-642978920 Chris Susans]
|f_notes=Michael Coleman - (Jan 31, 1891 - Jan , 1945)
|f_notes=Thomas d'Urfey - His multi-volume Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, written between 1698 and 1720, is a collection of songs and ballads.
|f_caption=Coleman’s version of the tune (the one played today) is in three parts and is most similar to Francis O’Neill's two-part version in the first strain; it is more similar to the two-part setting collected by James Goodman (with the addition of a third part).
|f_caption=Thomas D'Urfey also wrote a song to the melody called "Female Quarrel (The)," according to Glen (1900), a lampoon upon Phillida and Chloris. It was printed in Pills to Purge Melancholy (1715).
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/michaelcoleman-scmusic/tell-her-i-am Soundcloud]  
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/user-642978920/a-health-to-bettydull-sir-john-playford-1651 Soundcloud]  
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|f_article=[[Tell_Her_I_Am_(1) | '''Tell her I am''']]
|f_article=[[Health_to_Betty_(A) | '''Health to Betty''']]


Charlie Piggott, in his book '''Blooming Meadows''' (1998, written with Fintan Vallely), relates the story regarding a remark by Coleman, who was at the time living in New York.  
The tune was published by John Playford in his '''English Dancing Master''' (1651) and was retained in the long-running '''Dancing Master''' series through the 10th edition of 1698 (p. 55), published at the time by John's son, Henry Playford.


Coleman was performing when a female admirer asked her companion to find out from the fiddler whether or not he was married. “Tell Her I Am,” he replied, in an inside joke.   Piggott also relates that Galway accordion player Joe Cooley (who also lived for some time in America) also fancied the jig, which he learned in the 1940’s in Dublin from the playing of Kilkenny fiddler John Kelly.  
The tune was supplanted in later '''Dancing Master''' editions (albeit still called "Health to Betty') and is the same one used in D'Urfey's '''Pills to Purge Melancholy''' (1719). Chappell (1859) asserts the Scots appropriated this tune for their "[[My Minnie's Aye Glowren O'er Me]]," which is the opening line of Allan Ramsay's song set to the tune.  


A bemused Cooley often, tongue in cheek, asked his flatmate for the name of the tune, anticipating the reply. Invariable it came in a tortured, garbled, improperly understood variation, “Tell Her Who Am I.” Paul de Grae suggests "the slightly cryptic title may be a garbling of "A Tailor I am"; there is an unrelated jig of that title"<ref>Paul de Grae, “Notes on Sources of Tunes in the O’Neill Collections”, 2017 [https://www.irishtune.info/public/oneill-sources.htm].</ref>.
John Glen ('''Early Scottish Melodies''', 1900) believes the provenance is just the other way round, and that the English captured the tune as a country dance, to which the words had become detached. Glen points out the tune is in the Scottish '''Blaikie Manuscript''' (c. 1695). Stenhouse, in his notes to Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum''' ('''Illustrations''', 1853), writes that playwright and poet Allan Ramsay's (1686-1758) words were adapted to an ancient tune, in triple time, called "A Health to Betty," which originally consisted of one strain (which is printed in Thomson's '''Orpheus Caledonius''', 1725).  
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Coleman’s setting is certainly the standard setting nowadays for the tune, although not the earliest one.  O’Neill printed the tune in 1903, in a different setting then the one employed by Coleman (who was a boy of 12 in County Sligo at the time).  


William Bradbury Ryan's '''Ryan’s Mammoth Collection''' (1883) includes the tune in a setting more akin to Coleman’s, and which is also similar to a setting collected by Church of Ireland cleric and uilleann piper [[wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist)|James_Goodman_]] (1828-1896) in Munster in the 1860s, under the title “[[Humors of Ballymore (2) (The)]].”  
Ramsay's song was titled "[[Katy's Answer]]" and was a sequel to "The Young Laird and Edinburgh Katy."  Researcher Anne Gilchrist says Ramsay's first verse seems different that the rest, and suspects it was the remnant of an older song that Ramsay fashioned new stanzas for (they "are more sophisticated and do not fit the tune as neatly"<ref>Anne G. Gilchrist, "Some Additional Notes on the Traditional History of Certain Ballad-Tunes in the Dancing Master", '''Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society''', vol. 3, No. 4, Dec., 1939, p. 276).</ref>).   
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Revision as of 08:29, 4 May 2024



Thomas D'Urfey also wrote a song to the melody called "Female Quarrel (The)," according to Glen (1900), a lampoon upon Phillida and Chloris. It was printed in Pills to Purge Melancholy (1715).
Health to Betty

Played by: Chris Susans
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Thomas d'Urfey - His multi-volume Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, written between 1698 and 1720, is a collection of songs and ballads.

Health to Betty

The tune was published by John Playford in his English Dancing Master (1651) and was retained in the long-running Dancing Master series through the 10th edition of 1698 (p. 55), published at the time by John's son, Henry Playford.

The tune was supplanted in later Dancing Master editions (albeit still called "Health to Betty') and is the same one used in D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719). Chappell (1859) asserts the Scots appropriated this tune for their "My Minnie's Aye Glowren O'er Me," which is the opening line of Allan Ramsay's song set to the tune.

John Glen (Early Scottish Melodies, 1900) believes the provenance is just the other way round, and that the English captured the tune as a country dance, to which the words had become detached. Glen points out the tune is in the Scottish Blaikie Manuscript (c. 1695). Stenhouse, in his notes to Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (Illustrations, 1853), writes that playwright and poet Allan Ramsay's (1686-1758) words were adapted to an ancient tune, in triple time, called "A Health to Betty," which originally consisted of one strain (which is printed in Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius, 1725).

Ramsay's song was titled "Katy's Answer" and was a sequel to "The Young Laird and Edinburgh Katy." Researcher Anne Gilchrist says Ramsay's first verse seems different that the rest, and suspects it was the remnant of an older song that Ramsay fashioned new stanzas for (they "are more sophisticated and do not fit the tune as neatly"[1]).

...more at: Health to Betty - full Score(s) and Annotations


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  1. ↑ Anne G. Gilchrist, "Some Additional Notes on the Traditional History of Certain Ballad-Tunes in the Dancing Master", Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, vol. 3, No. 4, Dec., 1939, p. 276).
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