CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE MORNING [2]. English, Jig and Air (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. C Major (Vickers): G Major (Bruce & Stokoe): A Major (Cocks). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Bruce & Stokoe, Cocks): AABB (Vickers). A Christmas carol. Originally "Christenmiss Day in the Morning" in William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian music manuscript collection [1].
Dame get up and bake your pies, Bake your pies, bake your pies; Dame get up and bake your pies, On Christmas Day in the morning. (Bruce & Stokoe)
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 111.
Cocks (Tutor for the Northumbrian Half-Long Bagpipes), 1925; No. 6, p. 9.
Mooney (A Collection of the Choicest Scots Tunes for the Lowland or Border Bagpipes, vol. 1), 1982; p. 12.
Seattle/Vickers (Great Northern Tune Book, part 2), 1987; No. 266.
