Annotation:Trusty Dick
X: 1 T: Trusty Dick T: Longways for as many as will. M:C| L:1/8 R:Country Dance, march, reel B: Wright's Compleat Collection of celebrated country Dances (1740, p. 32) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:C G2G2c2c2|defd e2 de|f2A2B2 cd|Td3c c4:|| |:dcBc Td3e|dcBc Td3e|f2A2 BecB|TA3G G2 ef| gagf e2 dc|defd e2 de|f2A2B2 cd|Td3c c4:||
TRUSTY DICK.AKA and see "When the King Enjoys His Own Again." English, Air and Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Antiquarian William Chappell, writing in the mid-19th century, finds mention of "Trusty Dick" as "An excellent new song of the unfortunate Whigs : to the tune of The King enjoys,&c," in the Roxburghe Collection (iii. 914), "printed for S. Maurel," in 1682. It begins:
The Whigs are but small, and of no good race.
