Annotation:Jolly Young Waterman (The)
X:81 T:Jolly Young Waterman. THO4.081, The A:England; London O: M:6/8 L:1/8 Z:vmp. Peter Dunk 2010/11.from a transcription by Fynn Titford-Mock 2007 B:Thompson's Compleat Coll. of 200 Favourite Country Dances Vol.IV. 1773-80 Q:3/8=100 K:A c/d/|efd cdB|AGA BGE|EFE EFE|AGc B2 c/d/| efd cdB|AGA BGE|EFG ABc|cdB A2:| |:A|A2d f2 A|A2 c ecA|Adf fed|Ace ecA| def fed|cde e2 E|Fdf efd|cdB A2:|
JOLLY YOUNG WATERMAN, THE (An Og-badoir Greannmar). AKA - "An Og-Badoir Greannmar." English, Air (6/8 time, "cheerfully"). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by English composer wikipedia:Charles_Dibdin (1745-1814) who also wrote lyrics for his melody, and included in his successful opera The Waterman (1744). O'Neill obviously thought it had Irish associations, as he included it in Music of Ireland (1903).
Dibdin's lyric begins:
And did you not hear of a jolly young waterman,
Who at Blackfriar's Bridge used for to ply;
And he feather'd his oars with such skill and dexterity
Winning each heart and delighting each eye;
He look'd so neat and row'd so steadily,
The maidens all flock'd in his boat so readily,
And he eyed the young rogues with so charming an air,
He eyed the young rogues with so charming an air,
That this jolly young waterman ne'er was in want of a fare. .... [from T. Dibdin's Songs of the late Charles Dibdin, 1850]
