Annotation:Take Me Jenny
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TAKE ME JENNY. AKA - "Take me Jenny let me win you while I’m in the humour." English, Air and Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A country dance adaptation of a popular 18th century slip-song, printed on numerous song sheets and in songsters. The first line goes: "Sweetest of pretty maids, let Cupid incline thee." The country dance was first published by Charles and Samuel Thompson in their Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773), followed by printings in Straight and Skillern’s Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1775), and Skillern’s Compleat Collection of Two Hundred and Four Reels…Country Dances (London, 1780). It is one of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance tune manuscript, and appears in the music copybook of American fiddlers John and William Pitt Thompson (1788, Norwich, Conn.) and in John Greenwood’s commonplace book (1785).
