Annotation:Spinning Wheel (5) (The)
X:1 T:Spinning Wheel [5], The M:6/8 L:1/8 B:Aird - Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II (1782) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Emin G/F/ | E2e edc | BAG FED | E2e (e/f/gf) | e2E E2F | E2e edc | BAG FED | E2e egf | e2E E2 :| |: F | GAG (Bcd/G/) | FEF DEF | GFE D2f | efg B2f | gfe dcB | ABG FED | E2e (efg/)f/ | e2E E2 :|]
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[1] in 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. The song was also published in America by Daniel Wright in The American Musical Miscellany (Northampton, Mass., 1798, pp. 61-64) and in 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."
- ↑ The song begins, "How happy is my lady's life"...