Annotation:Bob Logic's Fancy
X:1 T:Bob Logic’s Fancy M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Edward Riley – “Riley’s Flute Melodies vol. 3” (1820, No. 245, p. 77) F: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab7b93e0-f959-0139-46b9-0242ac110002#/?uuid=277ff190-2ae4-013a-5cb8-0242ac110003 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G d|(d>ed) g2d|{d}(cBc) B2G|.A(AB) .c(cd)|(eag) {g}(fed)| (d>ed) g2d|{d}(cBc) B2G|(ABc def)|g3-g2:| |:b|(abg) fed|(cdc) (Bcd)|e2 e (efg)|(fga) (ad'b)| (abg) (fge)|(dde) (fga)|(bBe) (d>e^c)|d3- d2:|
BOB LOGIC'S FANCY. American, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. 'Bob Logic' was a character Pierce Egan's popular series Life in London or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend, Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis (1821). Logic, the member of Oxford University, was the comic relief character. Egan's work inspired not a few plays on both sides of the Atlantic with the characters "Tom and Jerry"; the musical comedy "Tom and Jerry" opened in New York in 1823.
Riley's publication was issued in 1820, just prior to the first of Egan's series (1821). If the dates of publication are correct, then perhaps the phrase/name 'Bob Logic' was already in vernacular usage.
