Annotation:Foggy Dew (4) (The)

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 FOGGY DEW [4], THE. English, Air (4/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This air is from a MS collection of about 1825. Kidson remarks that the air is different from Bunting's in his 1840 book Ancient Irish Music, although Margaret Dean-Smith (in "A Guide to English Folk Song Collections," p. 67) maintains it "is of the same structure as that in (English collector Cecil) Sharpe's English Folk Carols (1911) but the melody is different from that usually associated with the English version of the song and nearer to that noted by Bunting." The tune goes to a bawdy song.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Kidson (Old English Country Dances), 1890; p. 24.  Recorded sources:

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