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Theme code Index	51H2H 3H2H1H
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	3/4
History
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	John Young
Book/Manuscript title	Book:The Third Volume of the Dancing Master second edition
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Year of publication/Date of MS	1726
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COME LET'S BE MERRY. English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody originally appeared in Walsh & Hare's New Country Dancing Master (3rd book, London, 1728), reprinted in Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master vol. 3 (London, 1749). It was also perhaps the vehicle for a song by the same name in The Sailor's Opera, or a Trip to Jamaica staged in London in 1745:

Come let's be merry, drink sack and sherry,
Why should we then now repine?
Since we are arrived in 'India's' soil,
Free from all care and toil?

Printed source: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.

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