Annotation:Lovely Lass to a Friar Came (1) (A)
X:1 T:Lovely Lass to a Fryar came [1], A M:C L:1/8 B:Alexander Stuart – “Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection of Scots B:Songs, part 3” (Edinburgh, c. 1724, p. 74-75 ) F: https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/rbc/id/3014 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G V:1 B2|c2B2A2G2|AGAB G2 AB|c2B2A2G2|A4G2:| |:BA|G2 d2d2 cd|e2d2d2cd|e2d2c2B2|A4 A2 Bc| d4 G4|AGAB G2 AB|c2B2A2G2|A4 G2 Bc| d4 G4|AGAB G2 AB|c2B2A2G2|A4 G2:| V:2 clef = bass G,2|A,2G,2F,2E,2|D,2C,2B,,2A,,2|F,,2G,,2C,2B,,2|D,2D,,2G,,2:| |:G,A,|B,2G,2B,2 A,B,|C2B,2G,2 A,B,|C2B,2A,2G,2|D,2A,,2D,,2z2| G,,4B,,4|D,2C,2B,,2A,,2|F,,2G,,2C,2B,,2|D,2D,,2G,,2z2| G,,4B,,4|C,2D,2B,,2C,2|A,,2G,,2F,,2E,,2|D,2D,,2G,,2:|
LOVELY LASS TO A FRIAR CAME [1], A. AKA - "Lovely Nun to a Friar Came." AKA and see "Cailín Dear," "Friar and the Nun (2) (The)." English, Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Gay): AAB (Aird). Scottish violinist Alexander Stuart included the air "A Lovely Lass to a Friar Came" in his Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection of Scots Songs, part 3 (Edinburgh, c. 1724), a collection of melodies to songs in Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellany (Edinburgh, 1724), which was originally published without music. The tune appears in John Gay's ballad opera The Beggar's Opera, 1728, (under the title "Thus when a food housewife sees a rat") and in a collection by Odell in 1729, after which it became very popular for a time under this title in England, but it was originally an Irish air called "Cailin Deas" which dates to 1660 (according to the sometimes unreliable Grattan Flood, 1906, for one). It was printed by the Irish collector Edward Bunting in the early 1800's, who was apparently unaware of the Irish title and used instead Gay's English one (see note for Lovely Lass to a Friar Came). The song and air were also printed in Watts' Musical Miscellany (1731).
