Annotation:Leather the Wig

LEATHER THE WIG (Plancam Peirbig). AKA and see "Bunter's Delight (The)," "Curl the Wig," "Will You Come Plank Come Plank," "Will You Come Down To Limerick?," "Whack at the Whigs (A)." Irish, English; Slip Jig. G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. An anti-whig song published by Playford in 1713. The title means to thresh the 'wig', as symbolizing the Whig.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 51. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883.

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