Annotation:Hump My Lady

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 HUMP MY LADY. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is from a large MS collection of country dance and other airs from a Leeds (Yorkshire) musician written down about 1820. Kidson explains that a hump-backed person used to be called "My Lord" or "My Lady."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Kidson (Old English Country Dances), 1890; p. 20.  Recorded sources:

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