Annotation:Trip and Go
X: 1 T:Trip and Go T:Tune: Boate Man M:6/8 L:1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/abc/mirror/mindspring.com/~dmilewski/ecdp/3lfpublic.abc K:C G,3 |: "C" G E2 G2 G | "C" G E2 G2 G | "Am" c2 c "Em" B2 A | "Dm" d3 "G" D3 | "C" G E2 "G" G2 G | "C" G E2 "Em" G2 G | "Am" c2 d "G" e d2 | "C" c3 C3 :| |: "Am" c2 d e2 d | "Am" c2 B "F" A2 G | "Dm" F2 F "Am" E2 D | "G" d3 D3 | "C" G E2 "G" G2 G | "C" G E2 "Em" G2 G | "Am" c2 d "G" e d2 | "C" c3 C3 :|
TRIP AND GO. English, Country Dance Air (6/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. This sixteenth century dance air appears in tablature in London music publisher John Playford's Musick's Delight on the Cithren[1] (1666, No. 13). Chappell (1859) says 'trip and go' seems to have become a proverbial expression, as in Shakespeare's Love's Lavour's Lost:
‘Trip and go', my sweet.
Gosson's Schoole of Abuse (1579):
‘Trip and go', for I dare not tarry.
and Ben Jonson's Case is altered
:
O delicate 'trip and go'.
Perhaps all these references stem from John Milton’s lyric poem L’Allegro, published in 1645, directed to the goddess Mirth:
Come, and trip it, as you go,
On the light fantastic toe;
And in they right hand lead with thee
The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty.
The country dance and tune were popular well before Playford's time and has been recorded to have been played for morris dancing in 1591.