Annotation:Kiss My Wife and Welcome (1)

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KISS MY WIFE AND WELCOME. AKA and see "Free and Easy (1)." Irish, Jig (12/8 time). E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is identified in James S. Kerr's Merry Melodies (where it appears as "Free and Easy"), and is included (as "Kiss My Wife, and Welcome") in P.H. Hughes' Gems of the Emerald Isle (London, c. 1860's).

Source for notated version: William Litten's music manuscript collection [Huntington]. Litten was a ship's fiddler who sailed with the British East India fleet on a voyage to China during the years 1800-1802. Little else is known about him. His music manuscript came into the possession of sailor Allen Coffin, although how is a mystery. Coffin brought it home with him to the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard in the early 19th century, when he finished his own voyages.

Printed sources: Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isle), c. 1860's?; No. 6, p.3. Huntington (William Linton's), 1977; p. 33.

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