Annotation:Jenny Come Tie Me

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 JENNY COME TIE ME. AKA and see "Jenny Come Tie My Cravat (2)," "Scotch Currant (The)." English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 or 6/8 time) or Jig. England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Emmerson (1971) finds this tune in Playford's Apollo's Banquet (5th Ed.). The country dance version given by the Northumbrian compiler William Vickers is given as "Jenny come tey mee;" Matt Seattle suggests similarities to "Mr. James Boswell's Jig." The tune was originally a seventeenth century corrant, states Emmerson (1972), entitled "Scotch Currant (The)."  Source for notated version: the 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers [Seattle].  Printed sources: Emmerson (Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String), 1971; p. 146 (appears as "Jenny Come Tie My Cravat"). Emmerson (A Social History of Scottish Dance), 1972; p. 196. Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 375.  Recorded sources:

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