Annotation:Carle an' the King come
Tune properties and standard notation
CARLE AN' THE KING COME. Scottish, Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (McGibbon): AA'BB' (Gow). This melody appears in Allan Ramsay's ballad opera The Gentle Shepherd, published 1725. Although it predates Gay's famous Beggar's Opera (1729) it was not performed until after Gay's work became a hit in London. A 'carle' in Scottish usage is a 'bloke', or common man.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Gow (Complete Repository), Part 4, 1817; p. 20. McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book III), 1762; p. 53.
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