Annotation:Follow Me Lads (2)

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X:1 T:Follow Me Lads [2] M:9/8 L:1/8 R:Slip Jig S:Goodman obtained the tune from the Swan Manuscript B:James Goodman music manuscript collection, Book 2, p. 52 (mid-19th century) F:http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=55&z=980.1588%2C1200.7324%2C6748.648%2C2584.8765 F:at Trinity College Dublin / Irish Traditional Music Archive goodman.itma.ie Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D d2B AFA AFA|d2B AFE E2c|d2B AFA AFA|BdB AFD D3:| g|f2d faf ege|f2d faf e2g|f2d faf ecA|BdB AFD D2:|]

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FOLLOW ME LADS [2]. AKA and see "Hunt the Fox," "Hey My Nanny." Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Follow Me Lads [2]" was entered into Book 2 of the mid-19th century music music manuscript collection of County Cork uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist). The title perhaps refers to the Victorian slang phrase 'follow-me-lads', meaning seductive curls or ribbons draped over a woman’s shoulder (in an era where women would have nearly always worn their hair up in public).

The tune was printed under the title "Hunt the Fox" in William Bradbury Ryan's Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). However, the tunes are derived from the slip jig "Hey My Nanny," an early version of which can be found in David Young's Duke of Perth Manuscript (1734). Much later in the century another version of was printed in Glasgow by James Aird (1797, as "Hey Me Nanny") which corresponds very nearly to Goodman's "Follow My Lads [2]." Goodman's "Up in the Garret I am" is related in the first strain.

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