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OLD WOMAN WHITHER SO HIGH. AKA and see "Lillibulero," "Irlandais Jig." English, Air (6/8 time). The lyric, from which the title is taken, is a version of the nursery rhyme and song "Old woman tossed up in a blanket/basket", for which see note for "Annotation:Old Woman Tossed Up (1)". The melody itself appears in Henry Playford's Musick's Hand Maid Second Part (1689) as "A new Irish Tune," set by English composer Henry Purcell.
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