Annotation:Eighty-Eight

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 EIGHTY-EIGHT. AKA and see "Hanskin," "Jog On (Jog On the Footpath Way)." English, Air. The tune appears under this title in Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (1707), taken from a ballad set to the melody about the Spanish Armada, beginning "Some years of late, in eighty-eight" or "In eighty-eight, ere I was born."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources:

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