I Cannot Win at Her for Her Big Belly

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 Theme code Index    16L24 1636
 Also known as    Hit Her on the Bum
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Scotland
 Genre/Style    Scottish
 Meter/Rhythm    Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Jig/Quadrille
 Key/Tonic of    G
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    6/8
 History    
 Structure    One part
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Henry Playford
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:A Collection of Original Scots Tunes
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 20
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1700
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
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I Cannot Win at Her for Her Big Belly: Annotations


X:1
T:Ye deal gae with hir hir tayle flyes up
M:
L:1/8
N:Transcribed as it appears in the MS, where Atkinson's rhythm
N:is garbled. 
B:Henry Atkinson manuscript (Northumberland, c. 1694, p. 99)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:C
D2 F6 c5c2A2c2|G6 d2d2|D2 F6 c6 c2A2c2 F4 c2c2|
A2 BABcde e4|cA G4 d2d2|e2 f6 e2d2 cA c2|F6 c4 c4:|
D2F4 f2 (fc) A2G4 f2f2 (e/f/g)|F6 f6 fefgf fc d2 cA F2|
BABcde f6 GA G4 d2d2|e2 f6 ed cA c2|F4 c4 c6:|]
X:1
T:I cannot win at her for her big Belly
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
B:Oswald – Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book V  (1760, p. 6)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
"Brisk"D|G2D TE2D|ABA (c/d/e)E|G2D e>dc|TB2d e/f/gB|
G2D TE2D|ABA c/d/eE|G2d d(B/c/d/B/)|GdG (B/c/d)D|
G2d d(B/c/d/B/)|AaA (c/d/e)E|G2d dBb|dBb dBg|
ecc dBB|AaA (c/d/e)E|g2e d(B/c/d/B/)|G2g (f/g/a)b|
g2e dBd|A2a (f/g/a)b|g2e (d<B) z|(d<B) z (d<B)z|
(ec)e (dB)g|AaA (c/d/e)c'|c'ba bag|G2g (f/g/a)b|
c'ac' bgb|agf gdB|caf gBG|AaA c/d/eG|
G2D TE2D|G2B dgb|G2D TE2D|A2c eac'|
G2D TE2D|g2G TB2G|c2a B2g|A2B (c/B/c/d/e/f/)|
g3 Te3|G2A Bba|g3 Te3|dBG Aba|(g2b) (f2a)|
(e2g) dBd|ede gdB|AaA (c/d/e)f|g2D TE2D|G2B dgb||

I Cannot Win at Her for Her Big Belly: Annotations