Annotation:Slip it in easy
SLIP IT IN EASY. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody, with instructions for a country dance, was first published by John Walsh in his Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master, 3rd edition (London, 1735, No. 9, p. 5, reprinted in 1749). It was also published by John Johnson in his Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1740, p. 28. London musician Thomas Hammersley entered a version into his c. 1790 music copybook (p. 24). "Slip it in easy" is one of several double entendre titles in the book in which the sexual meaning is barely disguised by the allusion to horse-riding (see also "Take my Bitt").
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