Annotation:May Fair
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MAY FAIR. AKA and see "Willoughby Whim (The)," "Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes," "O Jenny o Jenny where hast thou been?" "Oh Polly you might have toyed and kissed." English, Air (3/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The air appears in Tom D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (vol. 1, 1719), some editions of Playford's Dancing Master; and the ballad operas The Beggar's Opera (1728, as "Oh Polly, you might have toyed and kissed") and The Grub Street Opera, among others. Chappell (1859) reports it is sometimes called "O Jenny, Jenny where hast thou been?" from a Thomas D'Urfey song called "Willoughby Whim (The)." By Kidson's (1922) time English schoolchildren sang the tune as the song "Golden slumbers kiss your eyes."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Times), vol. 2, 1859; p. 113.
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