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Thread #62676   Message #1013677
Posted By: BoHaG
05-Sep-03 - 09:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Compleat Dancing Master: The Triumph
Subject: Lyr Req: Compleat Dancing Master: "The Triumph"
Can anyone supply the words used for the Playford tune "The Triumph" on the Kirkpatrick/Hutchings album "The Compleat Dancing Master"?

This tune appears elsewhere under several different names: "Follow Your Lover", Step and Fetch Her", Shave the Donkey", "Up the Sides and Down the Middle", "Sally Luker" and "Pretty Little Dear" but I am unable to find lyrics to anything other than the Morris Dance version of Shave the Monkey and which are quite different.

The tune structure is unusual being 3 parts X 4 bars each ie AABBCC gives a 24 bar tune. On my vinyl album the words only follow the first 2 parts ie AABB AABB but most of the words are unintelligible.