Annotation:Irish Trot (2)

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 IRISH TROT [2]. AKA and see "I'm Bubbled." English, Jig. England, Yorkshire. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is the vehicle for Air 18 in act I of John Gay's Beggar's Opera (1729), which begins: "I'm bubbled, I'm bubbled,"  Source for notated version: a MS copy by fiddler Lawrence Leadley (Helperby, Yorkshire), c. 1840's [Merryweather & Seattle].  Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782; p. Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 83, p. 49.  Recorded sources:

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