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WHEN PHOEBUS ADDREST. English, Ballad Air (6/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The original air appears in Friesche Lust Hof (1634) {appears as "O doe not, doe not kil me yet"}. The melody for the song was later supplanted by the air printed by Playford and well known today in country dance circles as "Drive the Cold Winter Away."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 1), 1859; p. 172.
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