TABLE OF TUNES

CONTAINED IN THE

SECOND VOLUME.

THE LATER SONGS, BALLADS, AND DANCE TUNES.

THE LATER POPULAR MUSIC.

SONGS, BALLADS, AND DANCE TUNES.

THE BUFF COAT HAS NO FELLOW.

The Dancing Master, 4th and all subsequent editions: in the later editions with the name of "Excuse me." Ballad operas.

In Fletcher's play, The Knight of Malta, act iii., sc. I, there is a "Song by the Watch," commencing thus:

"Sit, soldiers, sit and sing, the Round is clear,
And cock-a-loodle-loo tells us the day is near;
Each toss his can until his throat be mellow,

Drink, laugh, and sing The soldier has no fellow."

The last line is repeated in three out of the four verses or parts, and I suppose The soldier has no fellow to have been then a well-known song.

As various ballads were written to the tune called The buff coat has no fellow (see, for instance, Pepys Coll., iii. 150; Roxburghe, i. 536, &c.), and as the buff coat was a distinguishing mark of the soldier of the seventeenth century, the latter song, if the words could be recovered, might prove to be the one I suppose to have been referred to by

Fletcher.

The following list of ballad-operas, in all of which songs may be found written to the tune, sufficiently proves its former popularity :-Polly; The Lottery; An Old Man taught Wisdom; The Intriguing Chambermaid; The Lover's Opera; The Bay's Opera; The Lover his own Rival; The Grub Street Opera; The Devil of a Duke, or Trapolin's Vagaries; The Fashionable Lady, or Harlequin's Opera; The Generous Freemason; and The Footman.

This popularity extended to Ireland and Scotland; and although, in its old form, purely English in character, the air has been claimed both as Irish and as Scotch. T. Moore appropriated it, under the name of My husband's a journey to Portugal gone, and it has been claimed in Scotland as The Deuks dang o'er my Daddie.

In some copies of The Dancing Master the tune is in common time, and in several of the ballad-operas, whether under the name of Buff coat, or Excuse me (see, for instance, The Generous Freemason, 1731), it commences thus :

Other changes for the worse were also made in the tune before the use of it was given up.

M.

by C

[Moderate.]

JAMAICA.

The Dancing Master, 4th edition, and all after.

This tune appeared shortly after the taking of Jamaica from the Spaniards in 1655, and probably took its name from some song on that event, now lost.

The following were sung to it :

I. "The Prodigal's Resolution; or, My Father was born before me (Pills to purge Melancholy, vol. i., 1699 and 1707). This is taken from