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ONE EVENING HAVING LOST MY WAY. AKA and see "Walpole," "Walpole, or the Happy Clown." "Happy Clown (The), "Happy Farmer (2)," "Do You Fancy a Seamstress?." English, Air (6/8 time). The air was first published in London by John Young in his Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1718 and four subsequent editions through the 4th of 1728), and in Walsh's The Compleat Country Dancing master under the title "Walpole, or the Happy Clown". John Gay employed the air for his Beggar's Opera (1729), for a song by Lucy beginning "I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed." Subsequently, it was included in a number of ballad operas of the period, including The Grub-Street Opera (1731), Genuine Grub (1731), The Welsh Opera, or The Grey Mare the better Horse (1731), and The Beggar's Pantomime, or the Contending Columbines (1736). It was also issued on song-sheets, and in songsters such as The Thrush (1749) and Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd. William Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 2, p. 675) notes that the song "The Happy Clown," by Mr. Burkhead, begins "One evening, having lost my way," but says that a song printed to the tune in The Convivial Songster, called "As one bright sultry summer's day," may be older than any.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 2), 1858; p. 675. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 65 (facsimile of the Beggar's Opera).

Recorded sources: Green Hill Productions, John Mock - "Revolution: Songs of the Revolutionary War" (2008).

See also listing at:
Hear John Mock's recording on youtube.com [1]



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