Annotation:Fair Maid of the Inn (The)
X:83 T:Fair Maid of the Inn. THO4.083, The A:England; London O: M:C| L:1/8 Z:vmp. Peter Dunk 2010/11.from a transcription by Fynn Titford-Mock 2007 B:Thompson's Compleat Coll. of 200 Favourite Country Dances Vol.IV. 1773-80 Q:1/2=80 K:Bb (Bd)(fd) B2B2|(cd)(Bc) A2F2|(GB)(Ac) (Bd)(ce)|dfed {d2}c4| (Bd)(fd) B2B2|(cd)(Bc) {B}A2 (GF)|(GB)(Ac) (Bd)(dc)|d2 Tc2 B4:| |:(DE)(FB) G2G2|(FG)(AB) c2c2|(Bc)(de) (fb)(ag)|(fe)(dc) B2B2| (DE)(FB) G2G2|(FG)(AB) c2c2|(Bc)(de) (fb)(ag)|(fe)(dc) B4:|
FAIR MAID OF THE INN, THE. AKA and see "Pleasures of the Town (2) (The)." English, Country Dance. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. Fair Maid of the Inn was the title of a stage comedy sometimes attributed to Jacobean playwright John Fletcher (1579-1625), written in the year of his death from the plague. The melody was first printed in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances vol. 4, (London, 1780). A different tune, with "Fair Maid of the Inn" as an alternate title (to "Molly Mog") appears in Watt's Musical Miscellany, vol. 2 (1729). The alternate title, "Pleasures of the Town," also belongs to other, different, melodies as well (including a different "Pleasures of the Town (3) (The)" also published in the Thompson's 1780 collection).
