Come Let's be Merry

 COME LET'S BE MERRY. English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody originally appeared in Walsh & Hare's New Country Dancing Master (3rd book, London, 1728), reprinted in Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master vol. 3 (London, 1749). It was also perhaps the vehicle for a song by the same name in The Sailor's Opera, or a Trip to Jamaica staged in London in 1745: Come let's be merry, drink sack and sherry, Why should we then now repine? Since we are arrived in 'India's' soil, Free from all care and toil? Printed source: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.

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