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|f_tune_of_the_week=Because_He_was_a_Bonny_Lad
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|f_article=<div class = nomobile>[[There_cam%27_a_young_man_to_my_daddy%27s_door|'''There came a young man''']]</div>The tune is a minor version of the jig known in Ireland under the title "[[Jolly Old Man (The)]]" and others.
|f_article=A popular country dance dating back to at least 1752, according to Alburger (1983), when fiddler and dancing master John McGill of Girvan wrote down the instructions for his pupils. Glen finds its earliest appearance in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 14), in which year it also appeared in London publishers Charles and Samuel Thompson's first country dance collection (London, 1757). The tune appears, however, in the somewhat earlier '''Drummond Castle Manuscript''', inscribed "A Collection of Country Dances written for the use of his Grace the Duke of Perth by David Young, 1734." Dancing master and musician Young's MS was in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle in the early 1970's, and hence its present-day title. Nearly simultaneously, the melody was printed in London by John Walsh in his Third Book of the '''Compleat Country Dancing Master''' (1735). John Oswald included it in his '''Caledonian Pocket Companion''' (London, 1760). It retained its popularity through that century and into the next, for the title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes, which he wrote c. 1800, and is a core tune in Northumbrian piping repertory. The tune, attached to an alternate second strains, turns up in southwestern Pa. as 1) a fife tune (4/4 time) in the repertory of Hiram Horner (1944) who had the tune from a Scottish fifer, and known simply as "[[Old Bagpipe Air]]" [Bayard, 1981; No. 252, p. 216], and 2) as a jig called [[Nancy Fat]]<br />{{#info:<br /><@@@TAG193945@@@>|service}}<br />played by fifers in Greene County, Pa., and by one "crippled Jack Anderson" in particular [Bayard, 1981; No. 566, p. 503]. A reel setting of the melody appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon [[biography:James Goodman]] under the title "[[Bonny Lads]]" (vol. 3, p. 107). See also [[Highland Ladies Fishing]]<br />{{#info:<br /><@@@TAG120009@@@>|service}}<br />, a version of the tune from Glasgow piper, pipe teacher and pipe-maker William Gunn from his '''Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipe''' (1848).
The 'jolly old man' was the elderly father of a family of flute playing sons, who tried his best to dance a certain jig step to O'Brien's piping. "He appealed to the piper, in strident tones, 'Single it, single it; I can't double with the other foot.' This concession granted, he continued for a time, amidst great applause." O'Neill named the tune in honor of Mr. Maloney, the elderly dancer. (O'Neill, Irish Folk Music, p. 20). The alternate title "Bung Your Eye" comes from Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (1782), but the earliest appearance of the tune appears to be as the air to the song "There cam' a young man to my Daddie's door" published by Herd in 1769. In Scotland the tune is popular as a pipe jig under the titles "Big Headed Man (The)"<br />The song "There cam' a young man to my daddy's door" (AKA "The Brisk Young Lad") was printed by David Herd in his '''Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs''' (1776, pp. 150-151), and reprinted often in songsters and on songsheets. The words (as printed in Struthers' '''Harp of Caledonia''', 1821) go:<br />: <br />''There came a young man to my daddie's door,''<br />''My daddie's door, my daddie's door,''<br />''There came a young man to my daddie's door,''<br />''Came seeking me to woo.''<br /><br />'''Chorus''':<br />''And wow but he was a braw young lad,''<br />''A brisk young lad, and a braw young lad,''<br />''And wow but he was a braw young lad,''<br />''Came seeking me to woo.''<br /><br />''But I was baking when he came,''<br />''When he came, when he came,''<br />''I took him in, and gae him a scone,''<br />''To thow his frozen mou'.''
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Because He Was A Bonny Lad

Played by : The Unthanks
Source  : Soundcoud
Image : Selection of Scotch English Irish and foreign airs - Volume II

A popular country dance dating back to at least 1752, according to Alburger (1983), when fiddler and dancing master John McGill of Girvan wrote down the instructions for his pupils. Glen finds its earliest appearance in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 14), in which year it also appeared in London publishers Charles and Samuel Thompson's first country dance collection (London, 1757). The tune appears, however, in the somewhat earlier Drummond Castle Manuscript, inscribed "A Collection of Country Dances written for the use of his Grace the Duke of Perth by David Young, 1734." Dancing master and musician Young's MS was in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle in the early 1970's, and hence its present-day title. Nearly simultaneously, the melody was printed in London by John Walsh in his Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master (1735). John Oswald included it in his Caledonian Pocket Companion (London, 1760). It retained its popularity through that century and into the next, for the title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes, which he wrote c. 1800, and is a core tune in Northumbrian piping repertory. The tune, attached to an alternate second strains, turns up in southwestern Pa. as 1) a fife tune (4/4 time) in the repertory of Hiram Horner (1944) who had the tune from a Scottish fifer, and known simply as "Old Bagpipe Air" [Bayard, 1981; No. 252, p. 216], and 2) as a jig called Nancy Fat
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played by fifers in Greene County, Pa., and by one "crippled Jack Anderson" in particular [Bayard, 1981; No. 566, p. 503]. A reel setting of the melody appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman under the title "Bonny Lads" (vol. 3, p. 107). See also Highland Ladies Fishing
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, a version of the tune from Glasgow piper, pipe teacher and pipe-maker William Gunn from his Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipe (1848).

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