X:1
T:I’ve Something Else to Do
M:C
L:1/8
R:Air
B:John Thomas music manuscript collection (Wales, 1752, p. 23)
F:https://viewer.library.wales/5130424#?xywh=53%2C1464%2C2497%2C2097&cv=48
N:Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
d2|{c}B2 AG .d2.d2|e2 ge d3d|e2 c'b ba c'2|g2 dB A<G||d2|B2 AG d2d2|
e2 ge d3d|(ed)(cB) A2 dc|B2G2 G3d|B2 AG d2d2|e2 ge d3f|
g2 (bg) e2 ag|f2d2 d3d|g2a b2 (ag)|g2d2 d3B|e3f g2 (fe)|
d2B2B3d|G3A B3d|(ed)(cB) A2d2|g3e g4|{B}c d e c A4|
B c d B G3d|g2 ze !fermata!g3 ze|dcBA G2 zd|g2e2g2ze|dcBA G2||
I'VE SOMETHING ELSE TO DO. English, Air (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song air "I've something else to do" was entered in the music copybook of Welsh fiddler John Thomas, dated, 1752. It also is contained in musician Jeremiah Regan's (Bandon, Ireland) music copybook of 1764-65, and in the 1772 commonplace book of Samuel Hudson/Nicholas Cook (Johnston, Rhode Island).
