Annotation:Who liveth so merry

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WHO LIVETH SO MERRY. English, Ballad Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA. This late sixteenth century air appears in Deuteromelia (1609) and Pills to Purge Melancholy (1698). Kines (1964) notes it was an early song built on occupations, which must have proved popular, for many other such songs are found later in the 17th century in Pills to Purge Melancholy.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 1), 1859; p. 137. Kines (Songs From Shakespeare's Plays and Popular Songs of Shakespeare's Time), 1964; p. 90.

Recorded sources: Hyperion Records CDH55013, The City Waits - "How the World Wags" (1981).



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