Annotation:Ken You Not Little Jack Rob?

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 KEN YOU NOT LITTLE JACK ROB? AKA and see "Euphie McNab," "Ephey M'Nab," "Ephie McKnab." English, Jig. England, Northumberland. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Vickers' collection researcher Matt Seattle explains that the title refers to a character in the Scottish song "Eppie McNab", in which Jack (or Jock) is Ephie's jilted lover: ''She's down in the yard, She's kissin the Laird, She winna come hame to her ain Jock Rab. Seattle points out that the "Ephie McKnab" melodies tend to be "modally ambiguous; some versions are minor, some major, some both, while Vickers' version avoids the 3rd of the scale and is not really either."  Source for notated version: William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian music manuscript collection [Seattle].  Printed sources: Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 3; No. 523.  Recorded sources:

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