The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #32152   Message #428132
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
29-Mar-01 - 01:02 AM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing Tunes Wanted-part SIX
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing Tunes Wanted-part SIX
"Happy Dick" is of about 1720. He was a Richard Jones, who died in 1769. George Monroe composed a tune for it about 1725, but it was more often sung to "Gossip Joan". There is a version of "Gossip Joan" in DT with two tunes for it. See Scarce 1 file on my website for the full original "Gossip Joan" and S1.HTM for it's original tune as an ABC.