Annotation:Did You Ever Hear of a Gallant Sailor?
Tune properties and standard notation
DID YOU EVER HEAR OF A GALLANT SAILOR. English, Air. G Major. Standard tuning. The air appears under this title in John Gay's Beggar's Opera (1729, Air LXV) and in his later opera Achilles (1733), and in Thomas D'Urfy's Pills to Purge Melancholy, vol. III (1707).
But can I leave my pretty hussies,
Without one tear, or tender sigh?
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 69.
Recorded sources: