Annotation:Squire Wood's Lamentation on the Refusal of his Halfpence
X:1 T:Wood's Lamentation on the Refusal of his Halfpiece M:C L:1/8 B:Daniel Wright – Aria di Camera (London, 1727, No. 35) N:”being A Choice Collection of Scotch, Irish & Welsh Airs N:for the Violin and German Flute by the following masters N:Mr. Alex. Urquahart of Edinburgh, Mr. Dermot O'Connar of Limrick N:Mr. Hugh Edwards of Carmarthen” F: https://ia600808.us.archive.org/20/items/AriaDiCamera1727/Wright-AriaDiCamera-1727.pdf Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G GA|B4 B3g|d2 Bd B2 AG|B4 B3g|e2 dg B3g| e2 (dB) d2 (dA)|B2 (AG) A2 (GE)|G3A BGdB|A4 G2|| d2|ef g2G2g2|(ga) (b/a/g) e3d|B2d2 efgf|e4 d3d| efga gG g2|(ga) (b/a/g) e3d|(BA) B2 (dB) d2|ed e2 =f4| ge g2 ed e2|dB d2 BG B2|g3e dgdB|A4 G4||
SQUIRE WOOD'S LAMENTATION ON THE REFUSAL OF HIS HALFPENCE. AKA and see "Soor Plooms," "Soor Plooms of Galashiels," or "Sour Plums of Galashiels" (Scot.), “Wood's Lamentation.” Irish, Slow Air (4/4 time), Long or Set Dance (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Complete Collection, Stanford/Petrie): AABB (Mulvihill, O’Neill). The composition of "(Squire) Wood's Lamentation" has been credited to blind Irish harper wikipedia:Turlough_O'Carolan (1670-1738), although Robin Williamson notes that the attribution was not made prior to the Victorian collector George Petrie (1855, Ancient Music of Ireland). He speculates "O'Carolan wrote, to an existing tune, a song in which he satirized the scandal of 1722 involving the minting of excessive amounts of copper money by the aforementioned William Wood, a conniving copper mine owner" (Williamson).
