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WHAT THO' I AM A COUNTRY LASS. AKA and see "Sally in Our Alley." English, Air (3/2 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The song was written by Charles Coffey for the opera The Devil to Pay to a version of the same tune familiar as the vehicle for Carey's song "Sally in Our Alley."

What tho' I am a Country Lass,
A lofty mind I bear a;
I think my self as good as those,
That Gay Apparel wear a;
What tho' my Coat be Home-spun Gray,
My Skin it is soft a,
As those that in their Cypress Veils,
Do carry their Heads aloft a.

In plain stuff gown, an short-ear'd coif,
Hard Labour did endure—a
Tho' late I was a cobbler's wife
In cottage most obscure--a.

Other songs were also written to the air, including "The London Lady," printed in the Universal Spy; or, London Weekly Magazine in 1733.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Scott, 1926; p. 10.

Recorded sources:

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