Annotation:Hey Boys Up Go We (1)

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 HEY, BOYS, UP GO WE [1]. AKA and see "Cuckolds All in a Row." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Mixolydian/C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Karpeles, Raven, Sharp): AABB (Barnes). The tune dates to 1679 when it was published in John Playford's Dancing Master, in the supplement to the 6th edition. It also was published by Walsh & Hare in all three editions of their Compleat Dancing Master (1718, 1731 & 1754), and was included by Thomas D'Urfey in Wit and Mirth; Pills to Purge Melancholy, vol. 2 (1719). It was also a popular vehicle for songs in ballad operas, including Murder Out at Last (1683, where a ballad is directed to by sung to the tune of "Hey, Boys, Up Go We"), The Devil to Pay (1731), The Patron, or the Statesman's Opera (1729), The Ship-Wreck, or the Farmer on the Coast (1746), and 	The Love and Revenge: or, The Vintner Outwitted (1781). "Hey, Boys..." is printed in a section of 'Whig Songs' in James Hogg's The Jacobite Relics of Scotland, vol. 1 (1819, p. 395).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 227, p. 58. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Karpeles & Schofield (A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs), 1951; p. 13. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 26. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 20.  Recorded sources:

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