Country Bumpkin

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Theme code Index	4327L 1313
Also known as	Country Bumkin, Elsie Marley
Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance, Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/4, 6/8
History
Structure	AA'BB'CC'
Editor/Compiler	Biography:John Walsh
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Caledonian Country Dances
Tune and/or Page number	p. 85
Year of publication/Date of MS	c. 1745
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Title of recording
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Year recorded
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COUNTRY BUMPKIN. AKA - "Country Bumkin." AKA and see "Elsie Marley." Scottish, Country Dance Tune (6/4 or 6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Walsh): AA'BB'CC'. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Neil Stewart's 1761 A Collection of the Newest and Best Reels or Country Dances (p. 71), although John Walsh's publication (c. 1745) predates it.

Printed source: Walsh (Caledonian Country Dances), c. 1745; p. 85.

X:1
T:Country Bumkin
M:6/4
L:1/8
R:Country Dance
B:John Walsh - Caledonian Country Dances (c. 1745, p. 85)
N:Published in several volumes and different editions, 1731-c. 1745)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
c6 B6|A2B2G2 F3ED2|G4G2 B2A2B2|G4G2 B2A2B2|
c6B6|A2B2G2 F4f2|g4d2 e2d2c2|B6 G6||

X:1
T:Country Bumpkin
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:London, c. 1805
N:Also in William Pitt Turner's 1788 ms. (Norwich, Conn.)
K:G
c3 B3|ABG FEF|GAG BAB|GAG BAB|
c3 B3|Aag fef|g2d edc|1 B3 GAB:||2 B3 G2c||
Bde/f/ gdB|ABG FEF|GAG BAB|GAG BAc|
Bde/f/ gdB|Aag fef|g2d edc|1 B3 G2c:||2 B3 GAB||
cAc BGB|ABG FEF|GAG BAB|GAG BAB|
|1 cAc BAB|cag fef|g2d edc|B3 GAB:|
|2 cac BgB|Aag fef|g2d edc|BgB GAB||