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OLD WOMAN WHITHER SO HIGH. AKA and see "Lillibulero," "Irlandais Jig." English, Air (6/8 time). The lyric, from which the title is taken, is a version of the nursery rhyme and song "Old woman tossed up in a blanket/basket", for which see note for "Annotation:Old Woman Tossed Up (1)". The melody itself appears in Henry Playford's Musick's Hand Maid Second Part (1689) as "A new Irish Tune," set by English composer Henry Purcell.

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-'''OLD WOMAN WHITHER SO HIGH.''' AKA and see "[[Lillibulero]]," "[[Irlandais Jig]]." The melody was printed under this title in London publisher Henry Playford's '''Musick's Hand-Maid''' of 1689. See note for "[[Annotation:Old Woman Tossed Up (1)]]" for more.
+'''OLD WOMAN WHITHER SO HIGH.''' AKA and see "[[Lillibulero]]," "[[Irlandais Jig]]." English, Air (6/8 time). The lyric, from which the title is taken, is a version of the nursery rhyme and song "Old woman tossed up in a blanket/basket", for which see note for "[[Annotation:Old Woman Tossed Up (1)]]". The melody itself appears in Henry Playford's '''Musick's Hand Maid Second Part''' (1689) as "A new Irish Tune," set by English composer Henry Purcell.
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