Annotation:Vulcan's Cave
X: 1 T:Vulcan's Cave. RH.493 T:King of the Cannibal Islands,aka. RH.493 T:Cumberland Reel,aka. RH.493 T:Nottingham Swing,aka. RH.493 R:jig S:Rev.R.Harrison's MS,c1815,Cumbria N:aka King of the Cannibal Islands, Cumberland Reel, N:Nottingham Swing, Hilly-go Filly-go all the way, etc. O:England A:Temple Sowerby,Cumbria Z:vmp.Simon Wilson. Review PJH, 2008. M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:3/8=120 K:G d|b2a g2f|f2e d2B|cBc A2c|B2c d2G| e2G g2G|d2G g2G|fga def|g3 g2:|! .b2.b .b2.a|.b2.b .b2.a|.b2.b .c'2.b|a>ba a2z| g2g g2f|g2g g2f|g2g a2g|fga def|! g3 fed|e2f g2z|g3 fed|e2f g2b| a2g a2b|a2g a2b|a2d' def|g3 g2|]
VULCAN'S CAVE. AKA and see "Cotton Lords of Preston," "Hilly-Go Filly-Go All the Way," "King of the Cannibal Islands," "Cumberland Reel." English, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears under this title in the music manuscript copybooks of several English musicians from the early-to-mid 19th century.
It was composed by John Charles White (1795-1845), a music seller from Bath, England, and first published in White’s Third Set of Quadrilles (1815), from one of these quadrilles, “Les deux rivales.” [27] White later adapted the tune as a country dance and renamed it “Vulcan’s Cave.” It was “introduced at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, performed at the Amicable Society’s Balls, Willis’s Rooms, and all Fashionable assemblies in London, Bath, Cheltenham, Brighton, etc.” [28]
VULCAN'S CAVE.
The songs and ballads of Cumberland, to which are added dialect and other poems, with notes, ed ... by George Coward
Publication date 1874
[This fragment is by Mark Lonsdale, the author of the Upshot, the Old Commodore, &c. The burden, Twank-a- dillo, S'c, with the music, was sent to the editor by John Woodcock Graves, of Hobart Town, Tasmania.]
HUS we work, like jovial fellows,
Drink and sing and blow the bellows,
When hissing sparks around us fly,
And lips are parch'd and throats are dry,
Then, then's the time to wet your eye,
And blow, blow the bellows. — (Blows) —
" Twank-a-dillo, twank-a-dillo >
Twank-a-dillo — dillo — ditto ;
And we play 'd our merry pipes
Dow?i by the green willow.
