Annotation:Stay and Take Your Petticoat with You
X:1 T:Stay and take your Petticoat with you M:2/4 L:1/8 B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Gmin d|bag^f|gedc|d(3c/d/e/ dc|BAGd|bag^f|gbac|dc/B/ Tc2|d3:| |:d|(f_a)(g=B)|cGEG|egf=A|BFDF|(BA) (ed)|g^fge|dcBA|G3:||
STAY AND TAKE YOUR PETTICOAT WITH YOU. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title appears to be a play on the earlier tune name “Stay and You’re your Breeches/Breiks with You” which had been around at least since 1734 when it was included in David Young's Drummond Castle Manuscript, Part 2 (1734, No. 71).
The melody, like many in Charles and Samuel Thompson’s 1757 collection, first appears in John Johnson’s Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 7 (London, 1756).
