Annotation:Dennis Bulgruddery
Tune properties and standard notation
DEN(N)IS BULLYRUDDERY/BULGRUDDERY. English, Air (6/8 time). D Major (Ashman): G Major (Howe). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This song, according to a note in The New Musical and Vocal Cabinet of 1820, was written by George Colman, set to the tune by Charles Dibdin, and "sung by Mr. Johnstone." It belongs to the "Derry down" song category (from the burden which always begins "Derry down,...") that also includes "A Cobbler There Was" and a great many others. In America, it can be found in the 1801-1825 music copybook of musician John Beach (Gloucester, Mass.).
Source for notated version: a c. 1837-1840 MS by Shropshire musician John Moore [Ashman].
Printed sources: Ashman (The Ironbridge Hornpipe), 1991; No. 107a, p. 44. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 114.
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