Key signature: Aminor
Submitted on February 1st 2007 by nicholas.
This tune has been added to 6 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: A North Country Maid
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Amin
|:E|A2 AB|c2 BA|B2 Bc|d2 cB|
A2 AB|c2 BA|^GB e_e|=e2 e=f|
=g2 ed|c2 Bc|dc BA|^G2 AB|
c2 BA|^G2 ^F^G|A2 AG|A2 e=f|
g2 ed|c2 Bc|dc BA|^G2 AB|
c2 BA|^G2 ^F^G|A2 AG| A3 :|
A North Country Maid
This is the tune of a well-known drawing room folk song that begins:
"A North Country maid up to London hath strayed,
But O, with her nature it did not agree..."
- And, quite reasonably IMO, she wants out of the place and to go back North.
(I'm told that in the days of servants, girls from the North were well regarded, as being more diligent than some others - the "Polish plumbers" of their occupation.)
I don't know the history of the song or the tune. The latter is thoroughly chromaticised and I can't think of any trad tune from which it could have been derived.
# Posted on February 1st 2007 by nicholas
There are bum notes in it, as usual. I'll try to alter the abc's where they occur.
# Posted on February 1st 2007 by nicholas
In the lower part of the sheet music, two F's with a natural sign in front of them are meant to be played sharp.
# Posted on February 1st 2007 by nicholas
ABC'S OK NOW!
(There was the odd other glitch.)
# Posted on February 1st 2007 by nicholas