Annotation:Narrow Bottom
X:1 T:Narrow Bottom, or Merry Cohlyar M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune B:Walter Rainstorp music manuscript collection (1747) N:Bought in Cheapside, London." B:https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2057949 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G B2B BAG|c2c cBA|d2d dcB|AGA B2G| B2B BAG|c2c cBA|d2d dcB|AGF G3:| |:d2d gBc|d2d gBc|d2d g2f|e2d ^c2A| f2f fed|g2g gfe|a2a agf|ed^c d3| B2B BAG|c2c cBA|d2d dcB|AGA B2G| B2B BAG|c2c cBA|d2d dcB|AGF G3:|
NARROW BOTTOM. AKA - "Merry Cohlyar," " Na'er a bottom." English, Jig (6/8 time). England; London, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The jig was first printed by London publisher John Johnson in his A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (1744, p. 94), and by John Walsh (the younger) in both Caledonian Country Dances. Book the Fourth...2d Edition (1745) and The Compleat Country Dancing-Master. Volume the Fifth (1754, p. 99). As "The Na'er a Bottom", it appears in David Rutherford's Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances (London, 1756, p. 89).
