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Thread #42222   Message #618635
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
30-Dec-01 - 03:37 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
2174)   THE LOSS OF THE SCOTCH PATRICK  From the Greig-Duncan collection; text from James Angus.  This appears to be the only example found, and no tune is known for it.

2182)   LOVE IN THE TUB  This is a Missouri text noted in 1910, for which no tune was recorded.  There are a number of broadside examples (Love in a tub; or, the Old miser outwitted), but none of the accessible ones name a tune.  However, Claude M. Simpson (The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, 1966) mentions a broadside entitled A New Song called Love in a Tub (c. 1683), which was sung to the tune of Daniel Cooper.  Now, this may be a completely different song; but it seems to be the nearest we are likely to get.  There's a good enough chance that it was an earlier version of the late 18th/early 19th century sheets that can be seen at the Bodleian and the Library of Congress.  Midi made from the notation given in Playford's Dancing Master (9th edition, 1695, reproduced in Simpson's book), with the caveat that this is only a guess at a tune for this particular text.

2416)   MY FATHER'S SERVANT BOY  A set from Nova Scotia which was collected without a tune.  Midi made from a version in Sam Henry's Songs of the People (Huntington, Herrman & Moulden, 1990); the tune came from Samuel Davison of Drumnakeel, Ballyvoy, Ballycastle, in 1927.  Obviously, we don't know that the song was sung to the same tune in Nova Scotia, but it's as close as we can get.