Annotation:Dargle (The)
X:1 T:Dargle, The M:9/8 L:1/8 R:Air and Country Dance B:Elias Howe – Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (Boston, 1880-1882, p. 623) B: http://ks4.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/c/c7/IMSLP601433-PMLP562790-ONeill_Rare_Medium_M40_M8_v6.7_text.pdf Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Emin E2e E2F G3|E2e d2B AF^D|E2e E2F G3|AB^c dcB AF^D:| |:E2b a2g f3|d2e f2g afd|(ba).f (ba).f e3|B2e d2B AF^D:|]
DARGLE, THE. AKA and see "Camstroden's Rant," "Card and Spin." English, Air (9/8). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was used in the 1772 London stage production Irish Fair, which featured Irish and Scottish country dance tunes. It is a different piece than "The Dargle," a Dublin broadsheet ballad which begins "Come, haste to the wedding" and may have been a variant of that famous melody. Fr. John Quinn finds the tune to be a cognate version of the 18th century "Card and Spin," which was included in the 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers. See also note for "annotation:Camstroden's Rant" for more.
See also the similarly-entitled "Waxies Dargle (The)" and "New Dargle."
