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MISCHIEVOUS BEE, THE. English, Air and Jig. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Mischievous Bee" is a song sung by Miss Duncan in the comedy Time's a Tell-tale, written by Henry Siddons and composed by Michael Kelley. The play was staged in 1807 at the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane. The lyric begins:

Little Cupid one day o'er a myrtle bough stray'd
And among the sweet blossoms he wantonly play'd
Plucking many a leaf from buds of the tree,
He felt that his finger was stung by a Bee.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Harding's All Round Collection, 1905; No. 111, p. 35.

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