Annotation:Jenny Sutton
Tune properties and standard notation
JENNY SUTTON. Scottish, Reel or Country Dance. A Major (most versions): G Major (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Jenny Sutton" was the title of a bawdy song by Captain Morris set to the air. The words begin:
Come, charge your glasses, let us raise
From dull oblivion's slumber;
A gallant nymph, well worth the praise,
Whose feats no man can number.
Her hand, like Caesar's, grasp'd it all,
Till envy mark'd her station;
Then like great Caesar, did she fall,
By foul assassination.
For every letch alike prepar'd
She valued not a button;
And culls of ev'ry humour shar'd
The charms of Jenny Sutton!
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. IV), c. 1794. Gow (The 2nd Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1788; p. 4. Honeyman (Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor), 1898; p. 21. Jones [ed]. (Complete Tutor Violin), c. 1815; p. 2. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 28. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), c. 1788. Wilson (Companion for the Ballroom), 1816; p. 234.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]