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Thread #76450   Message #1354750
Posted By: masato sakurai
12-Dec-04 - 11:57 AM
Thread Name: John of Paris No 1
Subject: Tune Add: JOHN OF PARIS / NINETY-FIVE
Is this (from The Fiddler's Companion) the same tune?
JOHN OF PARIS. AKA and see "Ninety-Five." Scottish, English, Jig and Morris Dance Tune. G Major (Harding's, Kennedy, Raven, Wade): A Major (Kerr). Standard. AAB (Kerr): AABB (Hardings): AA'BA' (Kennedy, Raven, Wade). The tune has been used for a single step dance in the North-West England morris dance tradition. Revealing the alternate title to the tune, at least, lyrics to the tune go:
***
The girls go by and they wink one eye,
It's will you marry me? No, not I;
I'm ninety-five, I'm ninety five,
And to stay single I'll contrive.
***
Hardings All-Round Collection, 1905; No. 131, pg. 41. Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book), Vol. 2, 1954; pg. 44. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 1; No. 3, pg. 27. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 100. Wade (Mally's North West Morris Book), 1988; pg. 30. Cottey Light Industries CLI-903, Dexter et al - "Over the Water" (1993. The tune appears as "95").
T:John of Paris
T:Ninety-Five
L:1/8
M:6/8
K:G
d/c/|:B2B BAB|d2B BAB|c2e g2e|d2B BAB|c2A AGA|1 B2G G2B|
A2B A2B|A2d d2c:|2 B2G G2F|Eed cBA|B2G G2||B|d2c Bcd|
e2f g2a|b2a gfe|d2c Bcd|e2e ecA|d2d dBG|c2A B2G|FGF D2||