Annotation:Jenny Come Tie My Cravat (1)

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 JENNY, COME TIE MY CRAVAT [1]. AKA and see "Garter (The)." English, Scottish; Country Dance Tune (2/2 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody dates from to 1686 when it was first printed in John Playford's Dancing Master, 7th edition. It was retained in the long-running series through the 18th and final edition of 1728 (then published by the Playfords' successor, John Young). Versions also appear in Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master (London, 1718, 1731 & 1754) and in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (vol. 6, 1760, p. 14). The melody was heard in period ballad operas, such as The Footman (1732), and Bay's Opera (1730). A version appears in the Henry Atkinson manuscript collection of 1694-95 under the title "Jockes Carvatt" (Jacks Carvatt), from the north east of England. French's "Mr. James Boswell's Jig" is said (by Mary Anne Alburger) to be a "stretched out" version of "Jenny Come Tie..."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 50.  Recorded sources:

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