Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on October 17th 2008 by fynnjamin.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Also known as Hey Jolly Broom Man, Jamacia, The Jolly Broom-Man, The Jolly Tradesman, Jovial Broome Man, Sometimes I Am A Tappster New, Sometimes I Am A Tapster New.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Jamaica
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|:DF FG/A/|BA B2|AF G/F/E/D/|E2 D2:|
dd cB/A/|BB AF|dd c/d/e|B2 A2|
dd cB/A/|BB AF|G/A/B AG/F/|E2 D2||
a popular 17th century dance tune; several broadside ballad songs are set to the tune, including the lewd Jolly Tradesman, from Pills To Purge Melancholy.
# Posted on October 17th 2008 by fynnjamin
Popular where ?
# Posted on October 18th 2008 by Kenny
This is an English country dance tune. There's a nice recording of it somewhere by the Broadside Band. I believe it is played in G on that recording.
# Posted on October 18th 2008 by smw