Annotation:Cobbler's Jig (1) (The)
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COBBLER'S JIG [1], THE. AKA and see "Engels Lapperken," "Cold's the Wind and Wets the Rain." English, Dutch; Sword Dance (2/2 time), Country Dance (4/4 time) or Polka. D Major (Chappell, Karpeles, Raven): C Major (Miller & Perron). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Chappell, Karpeles, Raven): AABB (Miller & Perron). The air appears in Bellerophon (1622), Nederlandtsche Gedenck-Clanck (1626), and was printed by Playford in the Dancing Master, first appearing in the supplement to the 6th edition of 1679. It was retained through subsequent editions through the 18th and last, published in 1728 (printed in London by John Young). It was also printed by the Walshes in the Compleat Country Dancing Master, editions of 1718, 1731 and 1754. Samuel Bayard (in his article "A Miscellany of Tune Notes," Studies in Folklore, p. 170) finds the tune in Walsh's Dancing Master of 1731 and as the first air on page 105 of the second volume of Nicholas Bennett's Alawon fy Ngwlad (1896). It has been used for the second figure in the sword dance from the area of Sleights, England. An old song was set to the tune (having nothing to do with a cobbler) which begins:
Cold's the wind and wet's the rain;
St. Hugh be our good speed!
Ill is the weather that bring-eth no gain,
Nor helps good hearts in need.
Chorus:
Hey down, a-down, hey down a-down
Hey derry derry down a-down;
Ho! well done, To me let come,
Ring compass, gentle joy. (Kines)
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 223, p. 57. Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 1, 1859; p. 279. Karpeles & Schofield (A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs), 1951; p. 28. Kines (Songs From Shakespeare's Plays and Popular Songs of Shakespeare's Time), 1964; p. 73. Miller & Perron (100 Polkas), 1978; No. 101. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 14. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 14 & p. 73. Walsh (Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth), London, 1740; No. 20.
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