Annotation:Come Now for Jest and Smiling
Back to Come Now for Jest and Smiling
COME NOW FOR JEST AND SMILING. English, Air (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is the air to a song in Richard Sheridan and Thomas Linley's (Sr. and Jr.) opera The Duenna (1775).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3), 1788; No. 497, p. 191.
Recorded sources:
Back to Come Now for Jest and Smiling