The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4844   Message #26796
Posted By: Jim Krasue
28-Apr-98 - 05:15 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Mill, Mill-O
Subject: The Mill, Mill-O
I found this tune in Robert Bremner's "Guitar Instruction" of 1758. Samuel Bayard refers to it as a parent tune to "Merrily Danced the Quaker," a fiddle tune he collected in Pennsylvania. He indicated that the Mill-O tune was quite popular in the 18th century, and had many sets of words composed for it. Does anyone have any?