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Thread #93815   Message #2696113
Posted By: Jack Campin
08-Aug-09 - 07:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'juice of barley', song from about 1690
Subject: Tune Add: THE MALT-MAN
That latest set of words doesn't fit Playford's "Stingo" tune. It's probably intended for "The Malt Man Comes on Monday", a 9/8 jig which i think was first published in Scottish sources of the mid-18th century. Here's a slightly later version, from the Gows' Second Repository. The first strain is the relevant one. (Staccato and slur marks omitted).


  X:1
  T:The Malt-man
  S:Gow's Complete Repository book 2
  M:9/8
  L:1/8
  K:G
  D       |E/F/GG G2g dBG| F2A AEA TF2D|E/F/GG G2g def|g2G G>AG G2:|
  c       |Bcd    efg dBG|TF2A AEA TF2D|dBd    ece def|g2G GAG  G2:|
  d//e//f/|g3    Tf2e dBG|TF2A AEA TF2D|gag   Tf2e def|g2G GAG  G2:|

If I remember right James Oswald really did a number on that, with lots of added sections.