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'''I HAVE BUT A MARK A YEAR'''. English, Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. According to Chappell, the tune appears in '''Pills to Purge Melancholy''' (1700 and later editions). In the '''Roxburghe Collection''' it is called "A Fair Portion for a Fair Maid" and also "The Praise of Nothing." | '''I HAVE BUT A MARK A YEAR'''. English, Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. According to Chappell, the tune appears in '''Pills to Purge Melancholy''' (1700 and later editions). In the '''Roxburghe Collection''' it is called "A Fair Portion for a Fair Maid" and also "The Praise of Nothing." | ||
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''Now all my friends are dead and gone,'' | ''Now all my friends are dead and gone,'' <br> | ||
''Alas! What will betide me,'' | ''Alas! What will betide me,''<br> | ||
''For I, poor maid, am left alone, '' | ''For I, poor maid, am left alone, ''<br> | ||
''Without a house to hide me.'' | ''Without a house to hide me.''<br> | ||
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''Yet still I’ll be of merry cheer,'' | ''Yet still I’ll be of merry cheer,''<br> | ||
''And have kind welcome ev’rywhere,'' | ''And have kind welcome ev’rywhere,''<br> | ||
''Though I have but a mark a year,'' | ''Though I have but a mark a year,''<br> | ||
''And that my mother gave me.'' | ''And that my mother gave me.''<br> | ||
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Revision as of 19:26, 8 February 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
I HAVE BUT A MARK A YEAR. English, Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. According to Chappell, the tune appears in Pills to Purge Melancholy (1700 and later editions). In the Roxburghe Collection it is called "A Fair Portion for a Fair Maid" and also "The Praise of Nothing."
Now all my friends are dead and gone,
Alas! What will betide me,
For I, poor maid, am left alone,
Without a house to hide me.
Yet still I’ll be of merry cheer,
And have kind welcome ev’rywhere,
Though I have but a mark a year,
And that my mother gave me.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Times), vol. 2, 1859; p. 86.
Recorded sources: