Annotation:Ye Gods! Was Strephon’s Picture Blest

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X:1 T:Ye Gods! Was Strephon’s Picture Blest M:C L:1/8 R:Air B:William Thomson - Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2 (1733, No. 9, p. 33) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F FG|A3f cA GF|A2 c>d c2 GA|B3d cA GF|A2G2G2 FG| Ac df cA GF|A2 f>g f2 AB|cd cA BA GF|D2 F>G F2|| cd|fg ag fd cA|c2 f>g f2 GA|Bc df cA GF|A2G2G2 FG| AG AF DF GA|BA Bc dc de|fe f gaga c|d2 f>g f2||

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YE GODS! WAS STREPHON'S PICTURE BLEST. Scottish, Air (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The first stanza to the song, from Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2 (1733), goes:

Ye Gods! Was Strephon’s Picture blest,
With the fair Heav’n of Chloe’s Breast,
Move softer thou fond flutt’ring Heart,
Oh! Gently throb,…too fierce thou art.
Tell me thou brightest of thy kind,
For Strephon was the Bliss design’d,
For Strephon’s sake dear charming maid,
Didst thou prefer his wand’ring shade.