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|f_annotation='''SPINNING WHEEL [5], THE.'''  AKA and see "[[You Stole My Heart Away]]." English, Air and Jig (6/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Spinning Wheel" is the indicated tune for a song<ref>The song begins, "How happy is my lady's life"... </ref> in Westmeath-born [[wikipedia:Charles_Coffey]]'s ballad opera '''The Merry Cobbler, or the Second Part of the Devil to Pay''', published in London in 1735 by John Watts, a follow-up to his 5th ballad opera, '''The Devil to Pay; or, Wives Metamorphos'd''' (1731), which was the most successful ballad opera of the century after John Gay's '''The Beggar's Opera.''' Coffey's opera had a ''pasticcio'' ('assembled' from preexisting melodies), and the provenance of the "Spinning Wheel" melody thus may not be English.
|f_annotation='''SPINNING WHEEL [5], THE.'''  AKA and see "[[You Stole My Heart Away]]." English, Air and Jig (6/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Spinning Wheel" is the indicated tune for a songs in a few ballad operas of the early 18th century.  I can be found as the vehicle for the song beginning "How happy is my lady's life"... in Westmeath-born [[wikipedia:Charles_Coffey]]'s ballad opera '''The Merry Cobbler, or the Second Part of the Devil to Pay''', published in London in 1735 by John Watts<ref>"Merry Cobbler" was a follow-up to his 5th ballad opera, '''The Devil to Pay; or, Wives Metamorphos'd''' (1731), which was the most successful ballad opera of the century after John Gay's '''The Beggar's Opera.'''</ref>. As Air XIV "Still I turn'd my Wheel about" it was heard in '''The Jovial Crew'''
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SPINNING WHEEL [5], THE. AKA and see "You Stole My Heart Away." English, Air and Jig (6/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Spinning Wheel" is the indicated tune for a songs in a few ballad operas of the early 18th century. I can be found as the vehicle for the song beginning "How happy is my lady's life"... in Westmeath-born wikipedia:Charles_Coffey's ballad opera The Merry Cobbler, or the Second Part of the Devil to Pay, published in London in 1735 by John Watts[1]. As Air XIV "Still I turn'd my Wheel about" it was heard in The Jovial Crew

The tune was also entered into the large c. 1790-1820 music manuscript collection of British army fifer biography:John Buttery (p. 491), who, after his discharge from the army eventually emigrated to Ontario, Canada, bringing his manuscript with him. A very close version of the tune was printed by Francis O'Neill in Music of Ireland (1903, No. 527) as the air "You Stole My Heart Away."


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Printed sources : - James S. Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II), Glasgow, 1782, No. 195, p. 72.






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  1. "Merry Cobbler" was a follow-up to his 5th ballad opera, The Devil to Pay; or, Wives Metamorphos'd (1731), which was the most successful ballad opera of the century after John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.