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|f_annotation='''STAY A WEE BIT, BONNIE LAD'''. English, Reel (whole time). England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB.
|f_annotation='''STAY A WEE BIT, BONNIE LAD'''. English, Reel (whole time). England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune is set in both instrumental and song versions.  One double-entendre verse (where the fiddle represents the vagina<ref>Vic Gammon (Ed.), Chapt. 2 "Such a Merry Tune: Music, Musical Instruments and Dance as Sexual Symbols," '''Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song 1600-1900''', 2007. </ref>) goes:
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''Well I loo my bonny lad,''<br>
''we'el the playing o' the fiddle;''<br>
''Weel his playing neet or day,''<br>
''Best when playing about the middle.''<br>
</blockquote>
|f_printed_sources=Bruce & Stokoe ('''Northumbrian Minstrelsy'''), 1882; p. 149. '''The Northumbrian Pipers Pocket-Green Book''' (1993).
|f_printed_sources=Bruce & Stokoe ('''Northumbrian Minstrelsy'''), 1882; p. 149. '''The Northumbrian Pipers Pocket-Green Book''' (1993).
|f_recorded_sources=Trailer LER 2030, High Level Ranters - "High Level" (1971). Horseplay - "Roughshod."
|f_recorded_sources=Trailer LER 2030, High Level Ranters - "High Level" (1971). Horseplay - "Roughshod."
}}
}}

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X:1 T:Stay a Wee Bit, Bonnie Lad M:C L:1/8 S:Bruce & Stokoe – Northumbrian Minstelsy Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D DFAF dF E2|DFAF BABd|GeFd eFEF|DFAd BABd:| adab afdf|adab abaf|adab afdf|dABA dABd| adab afdf|adab abaf|gbaf edef|dABA dABd||


STAY A WEE BIT, BONNIE LAD. English, Reel (whole time). England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune is set in both instrumental and song versions. One double-entendre verse (where the fiddle represents the vagina[1]) goes:

Well I loo my bonny lad,
we'el the playing o' the fiddle;
Weel his playing neet or day,
Best when playing about the middle.


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Printed sources : - Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 149. The Northumbrian Pipers Pocket-Green Book (1993).

Recorded sources : - Trailer LER 2030, High Level Ranters - "High Level" (1971). Horseplay - "Roughshod."



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  1. ↑ Vic Gammon (Ed.), Chapt. 2 "Such a Merry Tune: Music, Musical Instruments and Dance as Sexual Symbols," Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song 1600-1900, 2007.
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