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'''COME LET'S BE MERRY'''. English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. | '''COME LET'S BE MERRY'''. English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody originally appeared in Walsh & Hare's '''New Country Dancing Master''' (3rd book, London, 1728), reprinted in Walsh's '''Compleat Country Dancing Master''' vol. 3 (London, 1749). It was also perhaps the vehicle for a song by the same name in '''The Sailor's Opera, or a Trip to Jamaica''' staged in London in 1745: | ||
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<br> | ''Come let's be merry, drink sack and sherry,''<br> | ||
''Printed source:'' Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. | ''Why should we then now repine?''<br> | ||
''Since we are arrived in 'India's' soil,''<br> | |||
''Free from all care and toil?''<br> | |||
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''Printed source:'' Barnes ('''English Country Dance Tunes'''), 1986. | |||
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Revision as of 23:09, 5 October 2010
COME LET'S BE MERRY. English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody originally appeared in Walsh & Hare's New Country Dancing Master (3rd book, London, 1728), reprinted in Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master vol. 3 (London, 1749). It was also perhaps the vehicle for a song by the same name in The Sailor's Opera, or a Trip to Jamaica staged in London in 1745:
Come let's be merry, drink sack and sherry,
Why should we then now repine?
Since we are arrived in 'India's' soil,
Free from all care and toil?
Printed source: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.
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