Annotation:Let's be jovial
X:1 T:Let’s be jovial &c. M:C L:1/8 B:Alexander Stuart – “Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection” (Edinburgh, c. 1724, pp. 12-13 ) F: https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/rbc/id/2942 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D V:1 d2 cB A2d2|e2g2f2d2|f2 (ed) c2B2|c2d2 e4| d2 D2F2A2|Bcde c2A2|e3d c2 BA|E2^G2 A4|| e2 ed c2A2|d2f2 ^A2F2|f2B2 (gf)(ef)|d2c2B4| d2D2F2d2|B2 (ed) c2A2|a2 dc B2 (gf)|e3d d4|| V:2 clef = bass D2E2F2D2|B,2A,,2D,4|D,2C,B,, A,,2E,2|A,,2B,,2C,2A,,2| D,,4D,4|G,,4A,,4|A,2A,,B,, C,2D,2|E,2E,,2 A,4|| A,,4C,4|B,,2D,2F,3E,|D,2D,,2E,,2E,2|F,2F,,2 B,,B,A,G,| F,2F,,2D,2F,2|G,2E,2A,2G,2|F,2D,2G,2E,2|A,2A,,2 D,4||
LET'S BE JOVIAL. Scottish, Air (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Let's be jovial &c." is a convivial song in Scottish poet Allan Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellany (1724, p. 298), where is appears under the title "A Song"[1]. The first two stanzas go:
Let's be jovial, fill our glasses,
Madness 'tis for us to think,
How the world is rul'd by asses,
And the wife are sway'd by chink.
Fal la ra &c.
Then never let vain cares oppress us,
Riches are to them a snare,
We're every one as rich as Cræsus,
While our bottle drowns our care.
Fal la ra &c.
