Annotation:Bonny Lad Lay Your Pipes Down

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BONNY LAD LAY YOUR PIPES DOWN. AKA - "Bonny lad, prithee lay your pipe down." Scottish, Air (3/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BBCC'DD. The tune was first printed by Henry Playford in Apollo's Banquet, vol. 7 (London, 1693, p. 67). It was set to a song printed by Thomas D'Urfey whose first line goes, "Boony lad, prithee lay thy pipe down" [Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719-20, pp. 230-31], and it was the indicated tune for a song in Charles Coffey's opera The Beggar's Wedding (1729).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. 1), 1760; p. 20. Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. 4), 1760; p. 18.

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