Annotation:Go to Cow with Me Johnny
X:0327 T:Go to Cow with me Johnny. Roose.0327 M:9/8 L:1/8 Q:3/8=118 B:Roose MS, 1850 Z:Village Music Project, Peter Dunk 2019 K:D |:ABA A2G FED|ABAc2d e3|ABA A2G FGA|fed edc d3:| |:ABA fed ecA|ABA fed e3|ABA fed ecA|dAG F2c d3:|
GO TO COW WITH ME JOHNNY. AKA and see "Gang to the Kirk." English, Slip Jig (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.The melody also was published as a country dance tune "Gang to the Kirk" in John Walsh's The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Third (London, 1749, p. 35). London musician Thomas Hammersley entered it into his 1790 music manuscript copybook under the title "Gang to Ye Coy," and, later in the next century, Manchester, England, musician biography:John Roose copied it as "Go to Cow with Me Johnny."
