Annotation:Blue Devils (1) (The)
X:1 T:Blue Devils [1], The T:Gofid Glȃs (Y) M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Air N:"A Lamentation" B:Edward Jones - Musical, Poetical and Historical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, vol. 2 (1802, p. 62) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Gmin (B/c/)|d2d ded|c2c cdc|B2B BAG|[A,4^F4A4] z2:| |:(B/c/)|(d3 A2)A|BAG G2B|A^FD D3|G2G D2D|G2G A3| B2B =F2F|B2B c3|d2d ded|cBA A2c|BAG D2^F|[B,4G4] z2:|]
BLUE DEVILS [1], THE (Y Gofid Glȃs). Welsh, Air (6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The Welsh title, "Y Gofid Glȃs," can be translated as "The Blue Devils" or "The Blue Grief"; gofid means an 'affliction' or 'trouble'. The song "Blue Devils" was printed in Welsh musical composer and songwriter John Thomas's (1795–1871) Cambrian Minstrel (1845, p. 189), set to the air "Yr Hen Ofid Glas", with words that begin:
I'm a disease of high degree,
Blue Devils I am call'd;
The chambers that encompass me
Are fair and many-wall'd.
Chorus: See saw, see saw,
On beds of state my breath I draw,
Doctors, too, of lore immense,
Ladies bright of charms intense,
First in rank and polish'd sense,
My nurses are by law.
