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WE'VE CHEATED THE PARSON [1]. AKA - "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play." English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. There are two 6/4 or 6/8 melodies called "We've Cheated the Parson." The older one was printed by Henry Playford in Apollo's Banquet: The Second Book in 1691 and appears in numerous ballad operas [see "We've Cheated the Parson (2)"]. A second melody, the subject of this entry, was printed in John Gay's Polly (1729, Air XLVI) and in London publisher John Young's Third Volume of the Dancing Master (1628, under the title "Girls and Boys, come out to play: the new way". It was called "the new way" in Young's volume because the first part of the older tune was abandoned, while the second strain was attached to a different first strain.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Wilson (A Companion to the Ball Room), London, 1816; p. 92.

Recorded sources:

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-'''WE'VE CHEATED THE PARSON [1].''' AKA - "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play."  English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "We Cheated the Parson" is also called "[[Your Hay it is Mow'd]]" or "[[Harvest Song]]" and was a favorite melody from '''King Arthur''', set by English composer Henry Purcell in 1691 to a libretto by John Dryden. It appeared printed on broadside sheets soon afterward ("A New Playhouse song of the husband's delight, suiting the humours of a country Life") and was the vehicle for songs in ballad operas, such as Air XLVI in John Gay's ballad opera '''Polly''' (1729).
+'''WE'VE CHEATED THE PARSON [1].''' AKA - "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play."  English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.
-There are two 6/4 or 6/8 melodies called "We've Cheated the Parson." One was printed by Henry Playford in '''Apollo's Banquet: The Second Book''' in 1691 and appears in numerous ballad operas such as '''Jovial Crew''' (1731), '''Lovers Opera''' (1730), '''Merry Cobler''' (1735), '''Mock Doctor''' (1732) and '''Old Man''' (1735). A second, different, melody was printed in John Gay's '''Polly''' (1729), reprinted in dancing master Thomas Wilson's '''Companion to the Ball Room''' (1816).
+There are two 6/4 or 6/8 melodies called "We've Cheated the Parson." The older one was printed by Henry Playford in '''Apollo's Banquet: The Second Book''' in 1691 and appears in numerous ballad operas [see "[[We've Cheated the Parson (2)]]"]. A second melody, the subject of this entry, was printed in John Gay's '''Polly''' (1729, Air XLVI) and in London publisher John Young's '''Third Volume of the Dancing Master''' (1628, under the title "Girls and Boys, come out to play: the new way". It was called "the new way" in Young's volume because the first part of the older tune was abandoned, while the second strain was attached to a different first strain.
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-''Printed sources'': Wilson ('''A Companion to the Ball Room'''), London, 1816; p. 92 (this was the air used by Gay in '''Polly''').
+''Printed sources'': Wilson ('''A Companion to the Ball Room'''), London, 1816; p. 92.
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