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'''HEY JENNY COME DOWN TO JOCK'''. AKA and see "[[Take it Easy]]." Scottish, Jig. F Major (Carlin/Gow): G Major (Carlin/Master Collection, McGibbon, O'Farrell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Carlin/Gow): AABB (Carlin/Master Collection, McGibbon): AABBCCDD (O'Farrell). | '''HEY JENNY COME DOWN TO JOCK'''. AKA and see "[[Take it Easy]]." Scottish, Jig. F Major (Carlin/Gow): G Major (Carlin/Master Collection, McGibbon, O'Farrell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Carlin/Gow): AABB (Carlin/Master Collection, McGibbon): AABBCCDD (O'Farrell). The melody has some antiquity, and was, according to Stenhouse, the original melody for the broadly humourous song "Rob's Jock" inserted into the Bannatyne Manuscript, finished in 1568. The song was reworked (although kept its core content and lines), and "was another of the songs travestied by our Grub-street friends about the year 1700." This version appeears in D'Urfey's '''Wit and Mirth: Pills to Purge Melancholy''' as "The Scotch Wedding Between Jocky and Jenny." A note after the song directs that the following be said after singing it: | ||
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< | ''Sea then they gang'd to the Kirk to be wad. Noow they den't use to wad in Scotchland as they wad in England;'' | ||
''for they gang to the Kirk, and they take the DONKIN by the Rocket, and say: "Good morn, SIR DONKIN." Says SIR'' | |||
''DONKIN, Ah Jockey, sen ater me, wit ta ha Jenny to be thy wadded wife? Ah, by my lady (quoth Jockey), and thanks'' | |||
''twa we aw my heart. Then says SIR DONKIN, Ah Jenny, sen ater me, Wit ta ha Jockey to be they wadded loon, to'' | |||
''have and hold for aver and aver, forsaking aw other loons, lubberloons, black-lips, blue-nases, and aw swigg-bell'd'' | |||
''caaves? We aw my heart (quoth Jenny). Then says SIR DONKIN, Ah, an these twa ben't as weel wadded as eer I wadded'' | |||
''any twa in aw Scotchland, the Deel and St. Andrew part ye.'' | |||
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Tune properties and standard notation
HEY JENNY COME DOWN TO JOCK. AKA and see "Take it Easy." Scottish, Jig. F Major (Carlin/Gow): G Major (Carlin/Master Collection, McGibbon, O'Farrell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Carlin/Gow): AABB (Carlin/Master Collection, McGibbon): AABBCCDD (O'Farrell). The melody has some antiquity, and was, according to Stenhouse, the original melody for the broadly humourous song "Rob's Jock" inserted into the Bannatyne Manuscript, finished in 1568. The song was reworked (although kept its core content and lines), and "was another of the songs travestied by our Grub-street friends about the year 1700." This version appeears in D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth: Pills to Purge Melancholy as "The Scotch Wedding Between Jocky and Jenny." A note after the song directs that the following be said after singing it:
Sea then they gang'd to the Kirk to be wad. Noow they den't use to wad in Scotchland as they wad in England; for they gang to the Kirk, and they take the DONKIN by the Rocket, and say: "Good morn, SIR DONKIN." Says SIR DONKIN, Ah Jockey, sen ater me, wit ta ha Jenny to be thy wadded wife? Ah, by my lady (quoth Jockey), and thanks twa we aw my heart. Then says SIR DONKIN, Ah Jenny, sen ater me, Wit ta ha Jockey to be they wadded loon, to have and hold for aver and aver, forsaking aw other loons, lubberloons, black-lips, blue-nases, and aw swigg-bell'd caaves? We aw my heart (quoth Jenny). Then says SIR DONKIN, Ah, an these twa ben't as weel wadded as eer I wadded any twa in aw Scotchland, the Deel and St. Andrew part ye.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 157, p. 93. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 332. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 2, 1802; p. 11. McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book III), 1762; p. 85. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. IV), c. 1810; p. 102.
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