S6E07: Litten Manuscript Part II: Kiss My Wife and Welcome, Speed the Plow

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Tunes:
William Litten: Kiss My Wife and Welcome, Hey My Nancy, No Title II, Patrick’s Hill, Speed the Plough, The Ploughboy
James Aird: The Irish Pelt, Hey my Nanny
John MacPherson Mulhollan: Kiss My Wife and welcome,
O’Farrell: Humours of Ballinamult, Rogara Duff (Black Rogue),
John Murphy: Mrs. Dungannon’s Jigg,
Cannon Goodman: The Humours of Ballinamult,
Stephen Grier: Jackson’s Sport, God Speed the Plough,
Tara McGovern and the Iowa City Session: Basket of Turf
Francis O’Neill: The Basket of Turf,
Smollet Holden: The Unfortunate Rake
Donald MacDonald: Bundle and Go
John Rook: The Wee Wee Man,
William Dixon: The Golden Locks
Fisin: Speed the Plough
Anderson: Speed the Plough
William Gunn: Speed the Plough
Carlton Rawlings: Speed The Plough
O’Keefe: The Ploughboy

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I Forgot to mention but, here is a link to the flip/cocktail/punch recipes if you want to try and decipher and drink them:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UPFH3qOexRrTBT3JFpRXxQ7F8cGf2vjk/view?usp=sharing

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The Book I am Reading from is:
William Litten and Gale Huntington, William Littens Fiddle Tunes 1800-1802 (Vineyard Haven: Hines Point Publishers, 1977).
https://www.worldcat.org/title/william-littens-fiddle-tunes-1800-1802/oclc/5129508

Kiss My Wife and Welcome

Litten: Kiss my Wife and Welcome (Irish Pelt, Humour of Ballinamult, Jackson’s Sport)

1780s: The Irish Pelt From James Aird Vol III:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87705279

1804: Kiss my wife and welcome From John MacPherson Mulhollan’s Selection of Irish and Scots tunes, consisting of airs, marches, strathspeys , country dances, &c. https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105813397

1806: Humour of Ballinamult: from O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780278

1810: Mrs. Dungannon’s Jigg From John Murphy:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_collection_of_Irish_airs_and_jiggs_wit/_Up5WmARde0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA26&printsec=frontcover

1860s: The Humours of Ballinamult, From Cannon Goodman:
http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=45&z=-674.998%2C1519.0045%2C10413.1278%2C3722.2222

1883: Jackson’s Sport: from Volume three of Grier MSS:
http://grier.itma.ie/book-three#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=21&z=-276.2792%2C595.0914%2C3580.6618%2C1293.6439

1880: Free and Easy from Kerr’s Merry Melodies
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Free_and_Easy_(1)

Creel of Turf (AKA Unfortunate Rake, Up Sligo, Sligo Lassies, The Basket of Turf

1907: The Basket of Turf From O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland (also known as Unfortunate Rake in O’Neill)

https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Dance_Music_of_Ireland_(O%27Neill%2C_Francis)
1841ish: The Unfortunate Rake From Smollet Holden’s Collection of Favourite Irish Airs Vol. II
https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)

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The Black Rogue/Bundle and Go

1808: The Black Rogue, From O’Farrell Vol. 3
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf

1828: Bundle and Go (Now Jenny Lass My Bonny Bird)
From Donald MacDonald: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682484

1840: The Wee Wee Man (From Rook MS)
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/rook/rook_pages/038.htm

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Hey My Nancy

1780s: Hey my Nanny from James Aird:
https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc00rugg/page/n47/mode/1up?view=theater

1800: Hey My Nancy from William Litten:

1733: Golden Locks from William Dixon, this clearly isn’t the same tune, do you recognize Hey my Nancy as a Dixon tune?

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Untitled

1800: No Title II from Litten
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20Info.html

Patrick’s Hill and Speed the Plow

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1800: Patrick’s Hill From Litten
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20Info.html

1800: Speed the Plow from Litten
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20Info.html

Speed the Plough

(1799) Speed the Plough from James Fisin (Printed & sold at J & M Paff's musical store, No. 127 Broadway)
https://www.loc.gov/resource/musm1a1.10961.0/?sp=3&r=-0.09,0.713,1.29,0.508,0

1820: Speed the Plough From Anderson’s Budget:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87783132

1848: Speed the Plough: From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book02/Book02%2028.pdf

1883: God Speed the Plough: From Grier Manuscript:
http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=13&z=117.5778%2C238.3538%2C3251.8386%2C1174.8446

1966: Speed The Plow: From Virginia Old Time Fiddler: (https://tunearch.org/wiki/Speed_the_Plough_(1))
https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/speed-plow
Kentucky Field Recording:
https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/3974

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The Ploughboy

1792: The Ploughboy from John O’Keefe’s (with Music by Shield) The Farmer: A Comic Opera in Two Acts
https://www.loc.gov/resource/musschatz.16566.0/?sp=17&r=0.114,0.254,1.145,0.696,0

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