Annotation:Waterman's Dance
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WATERMAN’S DANCE, THE. AKA and see "Country Sheep-Shearing (The)," “Old Spand Hornpipe.” English, “Old” or Triple Hornpipe (triple time). C Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The tune appears in Thomas Marsden’s c. 1697 publication under the title “Old Spand Hornpipe.” Thomas D'Urfey wrote a song called "The Country Sheep-Shearing" with "Waterman's Dance" as the indicated tune, published in Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719, ii 68). It begins:
Jenney and Molly, and Dolly,
When young Lambs were a Roaring;
Robin and Willey, and Harry,
Met all at a Sheep-Shearing:
Lately a Match was made,
Plump Jone of the Valley,
Simper'd till Grace was said,
With Roger the Jolly:
Hodg the brisk and strong,
Could well give her a Fairing;
Joan the fresh and Young,
The best at the Sheep-Shearing.
