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NONG TONG PAW. AKA - "Nong Tong Pan." English, Air, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Mounseer Nong tong paw" is the name of a song written by composer and performer Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) for his entertainment "The General Election" (in which he sang the song). He was the premier composer for the English stage in the late 18th century, many of whose songs and airs were absorbed into traditional repertoire. Dibdin's original song mocks English and French stereotypes in five eight-line stanzas, particularly "John Bull's" inability to speak or understand French during a trip to Paris. The title is the protagonist's attempt to make sense of the French phrase Monsieur, je vous n'entends pas ("Monsieur, I don't understand you").

The melody was also entered into the c. 1797-1814 music copybooks of fiddler Ishmael Spicer, of Chatham, Conn., J. Jones (north Shropshire, 1801), William Clavert (Yorkshire, 1812), and R. Hughes (Whitchurch, Shropshire, 1823).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Preston (Preston's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1800), 1800;

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-'''NONG TONG PAW.''' AKA - "Nong Tong Pan." English, Air, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Mounseer Nong tong paw" is the name of a song written by composer Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) for his entertainment "The general election" He was the premier composer for the English stage in the late 18th century, many of whose songs and airs were absorbed into traditional repertoire.  Dibdin's original song mocks English and French stereotypes in five eight-line stanzas, particularly "John Bull's" inability to speak or understand French during a trip to Paris.
+'''NONG TONG PAW.''' AKA - "Nong Tong Pan." English, Air, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Mounseer Nong tong paw" is the name of a song written by composer and performer Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) for his entertainment "The General Election" (in which he sang the song). He was the premier composer for the English stage in the late 18th century, many of whose songs and airs were absorbed into traditional repertoire.  Dibdin's original song mocks English and French stereotypes in five eight-line stanzas, particularly "John Bull's" inability to speak or understand French during a trip to Paris. The title is the protagonist's attempt to make sense of the French phrase ''Monsieur, je vous n'entends pas'' ("Monsieur, I don't understand you").
 [[File:dibdin.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Charles Dibdin]]
 The melody was also entered into the c. 1797-1814 music copybooks of fiddler Ishmael Spicer, of Chatham, Conn., J. Jones (north Shropshire, 1801), William Clavert (Yorkshire, 1812), and R. Hughes (Whitchurch, Shropshire, 1823).