Annotation:Blithe Have I Been
X:1 T:Blithe Have I Been M:6/8 L:1/8 B:Harding's All Round Collection, No. 159 (1905) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:C cde G2e|f2e edc|cde G2G|A2B c2z| cd2 G2e|f2e edc|cde G2G|A2B c2z:| |:c2e g2e|a2f g2e|c2e gag|e3g3| a2f def|g2e c3|cde G2G|A3 c2z:||
BLITHE HAVE I BEEN. AKA and see "Merrily Danced the Quaker/Merrily Kissed the Quaker's Wife." Irish?, English; Jig (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title is from a song by Scottish poet Robert Burns, set to a version of the tune "Merrily Danced the Quaker." "Blithe have I been" was also entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter, a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset (p. 23 of the ms.).
