Annotation:Dan Gay
Tune properties and standard notation
DAN GAY. English, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This tune is apparently the air for the song "Lass of the Mill", which begins:
Dan gay first in vogue bro't the blithe Molly Mogg
The song was printed in John Sadler's The Muses Delight (Liverpool, 1754), on songsheets, and in other pubications.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Geoghegan (Compleat Tutor for the Pastoral or New Bagpipes), c. 1745-46; p. 28.
Recorded sources: