Annotation:Good Advice
X:1 T:Good Advice M:C L:1/8 B:David Young – “A Collection of Scotch Airs with the latest Variations” (AKA - The B:McFarlane Manuscript (c. 1741, No. 80, p. 129) F: https://rmacd.com/music/macfarlane-manuscript/collection/pdfs/good_advice.pdf N:The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland K:C c/d/|eccC E G2 c/B/|AGFE D d2 d/e/|feTdc (B/c/)d G(c/B/)|(A/B/)c (d/e/)f Te(d/c/) c:| |:c|e/f/g T(g>f/g/4) d/e/f T(f>e/f/4)|(c/d/)e (f/e/)(d/c/) B/c/d G2|c>B A2 d>cB2|g>f e(d/c/) d(c/B/) !fermata!c:|]
GOOD ADVICE. AKA - "Talk no more of Whig and Tory," "Leave off the idle prating." AKA and see "Love and Friendship," Steward's Lodge Song." English, Air (whole time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. An instrumental version of "Good Advice" is contained in Edinburgh fiddler and writing master biography:David Young's MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1741, No. 80, p. 129). Published instrumental versions, set to country dances, can be found in John Young's Third Volume of the Dancing Master, 2nd edition (1726, p. 25) and [John] Walsh & Hare's The New Country Dancing Master. 3rd Book (1728, p. 100). It is the air to a 1719 song set and sung by at the New Playhouse by William Leveridge that proved popular. It was issued on broadsides and reproduced in several period songsters such as Merry Companion: or, Universal Songster, The Handsome Cobbler's Garland (1739), Bickham's Musical Entertainer, vol. 2 (1740), and John Watts' Musical Miscellany vol. 4 (1730, pp. 24-26).
The first stanza goes:
Leave off this foolish prating
Talk no more of Whig and Tory
But fill your Glass
Round let it pass
The Bottle stands before you
Fill it up to the Top
Let the Night with mirth be Crown'd
Drink about
See it out
Love and Friendship still go round.
