Annotation:Orlabear's Maggot
X:1 T:Short and Sweet: Or, Orlabear's Maggot M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune B: K:Gmin g/f/|g2d B>AG|G,2A, B,2a|bag fde|d2B B2|| d/c/|Bdf Bdf|Acf Acf|GBd gab|(^fe/f/g/a/) d2g/f/|gdc B>AG|G3 G2||
ORLABEAR'S MAGGOT. AKA and see "Short and Sweet (1)." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Orlabear's Maggot" is the alternate title given for "Short and Sweet", a country dance and tune printed in London publisher John Young's Third Volume of the Dancing Master, second edition [1] (1726), and in John Walsh's Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1735, 1745 and 1754) and The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fifth (London, 1755). Dance instructions were also published in the London periodical The Weekly Amusement: or, The Universal Magazine in 1735. Who 'Orlabear' might have been is not known at this time. There was a John Orlebar (1697–1765), of Hinwick House, Bedfordshire, a British lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734, but there is nothing known that would connect him with this tune.