Annotation:About the Bush, Willy

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 ABOUT/ABOOT THE BUSH, WILLY. English, Air (6/4 time). England, Northumberland. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AB. Bruce & Stokoe (1882) print the words, beginning:

Aboot the bush Willy, Aboot the beehive, Aboot the bush Willy, I'll meet the belyve. Then to my ten shillings, Add you but a groat, I'll go to Newcastle, And buy a new coat.

Source for notated version: Printed sources: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; pg. 110. Recorded sources:

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