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'''WALPOLE.''' AKA - "Walpoole: or, the Happy Clown." AKA and see "[[I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed]]," "[[One evening having lost my way]]," "[[Happy Clown (The)]]," "[[Happy Farmer (2)]]." English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune appears in the '''Second Volume of the Dancing Master''' [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play5836.htm] (1718), published in London by John Young. The original words, credited to "Mr. Burkhead" were issued on single-sheets and were published by Allan Ramsay in his '''Tea-Table Miscellany.''' | '''WALPOLE.''' AKA - "Walpoole: or, the Happy Clown." AKA and see "[[I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed]]," "[[One evening having lost my way]]," "[[Happy Clown (The)]]," "[[Happy Farmer (2)]]." English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune appears in the '''Second Volume of the Dancing Master''' [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play5836.htm] (1718), published in London by John Young. The original words, credited to "Mr. Burkhead" were issued on single-sheets and were published by Allan Ramsay in his '''Tea-Table Miscellany.''' William Chappell notes the melody was also the vehicle for songs in John Gay's '''Beggar's Opera''' (1729, "I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed," with the first line "One evening having lost my way"), '''The Grub-Street Opera''', '''The Welsh Opera, or The Grey Mare the better Horse.''' | ||
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WALPOLE. AKA - "Walpoole: or, the Happy Clown." AKA and see "I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed," "One evening having lost my way," "Happy Clown (The)," "Happy Farmer (2)." English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune appears in the Second Volume of the Dancing Master [1] (1718), published in London by John Young. The original words, credited to "Mr. Burkhead" were issued on single-sheets and were published by Allan Ramsay in his Tea-Table Miscellany. William Chappell notes the melody was also the vehicle for songs in John Gay's Beggar's Opera (1729, "I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed," with the first line "One evening having lost my way"), The Grub-Street Opera, The Welsh Opera, or The Grey Mare the better Horse.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Young (Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 3rd edition), 1718; p. 347.
Recorded sources: