Three Crowdeys In A Day

[Roger Hare]

Yesterday, I stumbled across this rather nice little tune while working my way through the material in the VMP transcription of the Henry Atkinson MS which dates from 1694. It rather looks as if there might be words to the tune, but I can't find 'em. A forlorn hope maybe, but does anyone out there have words to this tune? Thank you.

X:22589
T:Three Crowdeys In A Day
%A lightly edited tune from Henry Atkinson's MS, 1694: http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/ChrisPartingtonsLinksPage.html
%Rudimentary accompaniment chords generated by ABCMus, setting 0.
O:England
A:Hartburn, Northumberland
B:Henry Atkinson's original MS, Hartburn, Northumberland, 1694. HA.133
Z:vmp. Chris Partington January 2004
N:"Crowdey once, crowdey twice, three crowdeys in a day, if ye crowdey any
N:more, ye'll crowdey all the ......?(illegible) away."
%Another great tune from the 18th century! RJH
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=120
K:Fmaj
"F" F2 A2 c4 | "F" F2 A2 f4 | "F" F2 A2 c2 f2 | "Gm" (dc)(BA) G4 |
"F" F2 A2 c4 | "F" F2 A2 f3 g | "F" agfd fdcA | "C" cAGF G4 ||
"F" f4 fg a2 | "F" c2 A2 c4 | "F" f4 fg a2 | "C" c2 A2 G4 |
"F" f4 fg a2 | "F" c2 A2 f3 g | "F" agfd fdcA | "C" cAGF G4 |]

I'm getting more drawn into this stuff from the 17/18th centuries every day...

ThreeCrowdeysInADay.abc ThreeCrowdeysInADay.pdf

Three Crowdeys In A Day.mid

Edited May 13 by Roger Hare