Annotation:Andrew Carey

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D Major (Athole, Cole, Gow, Kennedy, O'Farrell, Raven, Roche): G Major (Bruce & Stokoe, Vickers). Standard tuning. AAB (Athole, Gow, Hunter): AABB (O'Farrell): AABBCCDD' (Kennedy). A tune popular enough to have been widely disseminated. It first appears as a country dance called "Scotland" in Playford (1709), then appears in Daniel Wright's Collection of Scots Dances (1730, as "Andrew Kerr"), Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (London, 1740), Walsh's Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master (London, 1735 & 1749), and Simpson's Compleat Tutor for the Flute (London, 1745). Later it was published in Thompson (1777), James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5 (Glasgow, 1797), and the Gow's Complete Repository, Part 1 (1799). The tune's title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes ("The Northern Minstrel's Budget"), which he published c. 1800.

"Andrew Carey" and variant titles appears in several British musicians' manuscript collections, including William Vickers (Northumberland, 1770), John Fife (Perthshire and at sea, 1780, where it is noted as a "Retreat"), Joseph Crawhall (Northumberland, 1872), the Tiller ms., and Thomas Hammersley (London, 1790). In North America the tune was included by Henry Beck in his commonplace book for the flute (1786), Aaron Thompson (New Jersey, 1777-1782), William Morris (Hunterdon County, New Jersey, 1776-1777), and by Thomas Molyneaux in his flute copybook (Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1788).

Bruce & Stokoe print lyrics to the tune, beginning:

As I went to Newcastle, My journey was not far,

I met with a sailor lad, His name was Andrew Carr.

And hey for Andrew, Andrew, Ho for Andrew Carr,

And hey for Andrew, Andrew, Ho for Andrew Carr.

A slower version of the melody is played in the Shetlands as "The Yairds o' Finnigirth." Peter Kennedy gives the alternate English title "Derby Carey." It has survived in Irish tradition as the slip jig "Hills of Tipperary" and "Tipperary Hills."

Printed Sources: Bruce & Stokoe, Northumbrian Minstrelsy, 1882; pg. 179 (appears as "Andrew Carr"). Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; pg. 80. Charlton Memorial Tune Book, 1956; pg. 17 (appears as "Andrew Carey"). Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 78. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 1, 1799; pg. 36. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 290. Kennedy (The Fiddler's Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; pg. 3 No. 1. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. II), c. 1806; pg. 119. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), No. 430 (appears as "Tipperary Hills"). Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 130. Roche Collection, 1982; vol. II, pg. 24. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 138 (appears as "Andrew Carr"). Seattle (William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 306. Wilson (Companion to the Ball Room), 1816.

Recorded Sources: Redwing Music RWMCD 5410, Abby Newton - "Castles, Kirks and Caves" (2001).

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 * g2e dBG dBG|g2e ege f2d|gfe dBd def|g2G GAB A2G:||

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