Annotation:Money in Both Pockets (1)
X:1 T:Money in Both Pockets [1] C:Trad., Irish? S:Petrie's Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c., 1790 Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 2/28/04 N:Petrie's First Collection, page 11 L:1/8 M:6/8 K:D A | d2F FEF | ABA AGF | d2F TFEF | ABA gfe | d2F FEF | ABA AGF | EFE EFA | BcTB B2 :| |: A | dfa afd |cea ecA | dfa afd | g3 f2g | agf bag | agf ede | fdB AFA | BcB B2 :| z |: dcd dAF | ABA AGF | Tdcd dAF | Aaf gfe | %Petrie omitted the 8th rest at the beginning of the above line -SW dcd dAF | ABA AGF| E2E EFA | BcB B2z :| %Petrie omitted the 8th rest at the end of the above line -SW |: Tdcd afd | cea ecA | Tdcd afd |Tgfg f2g | (f/g/af) (g/a/bg) | (f/g/af) ede | fdB AFA | BcB B2z :| %Petrie omitted the 8th rest at the end of the above line -SW
MONEY IN BOTH POCKETS [1] ("Airgiod Ann Gac Pocad" or "Airgead in Gac Poca"). AKA and see "Trip to Galloway (2)," "Spinner's Lilt (The)." Scottish, English, Irish, American; (Slow, directs Gow) Jig (6/8 time). England; North-West. D Major (most versions): C Major (O'Neill). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Raven): AAB (Gow): AABB (most versions): AABBCC (O'Farrell): AABBCCDD (Petrie). The earliest printings of "Money in Both Pockets" can be found in the Scottish collections of Robert Petrie (1790) and Malcolm MacDonald (third collection, c. 1792), and, in England, in George Willis's Compleat Tutor for the German Flute (London, 1792, printed by Thomas Cahusac).
The dance and tune "Money in Both Pockets" started appearing in American publications and musicians' manuscripts in the 1790's and the early decades of the 19th century. One of the earliest was in Loring Andrews' A Collection of Contra Dances (dance figures only) printed in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1794. The tune was also was entered into the manuscript copybooks of flute player Thomas Molyneaux (Shelburne, Nova Scotia, begun 1788), flute player John Hoff (Lancaster, Penn., c. 1797), William Patten (c. 1800), Abel Shattuck (Mass., c. 1801), Ira Clark (Simsbury, Conn., c. 1801), keyboard player Ann Winnington (New York, c. 1810), and fifer Ebenezer Bevens (Middletown, Conn., c. 1825), among others. In Britain, it was entered into the music manuscript collections of John Fife (who may have been from Perthshire, and who may have spent some time at sea; his ms. was begun around 1780 and entries continued until 1804), William Mittel (New Romney, Kent, c. 1799), William Brown (Romford, England, c. 1797), and Rev. R. Harrison (Temple Sowerby, Cumbria, c. 1815).
It is the same contra dance Johnson prints for the tune "Maid of the Mill (1) (The)." An early American country dance by the same name is printed in Morrison.
See also Francis O'Neill's variant "Spinner's Lilt (The)."
