Cobbler's Jig, The
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Cobbler's Jig, The", also known as "Engels Lapperken" and "Cold's the Wind and Wets the Rain"<br> is an English and Dutch Sword Dance (cut time), Country Dance (4/4 time) or Polka in D Major<br> (Chappell, Karpeles, Raven), C Major (Miller & Perron). The playing form is AB (Chappell,<br> Karpeles, Raven), AABB (Miller & Perron).<br> The air appears in Bellerophon (1622) and Nederlandtsche Gedenck-Clanck (1626) and was printed by<br> Playford in the Dancing Master, first appearing in the supplement to the 6th edition of 1679.<br> It was retained through subsequent editions through the 18th and last, published in 1728<br> (printed in London by John Young). It was also printed by the Walshes in the Compleat Country<br> Dancing Master, editions of 1718, 1731 and 1754. Samuel Bayard (in his article "A Miscellany of<br> Tune Notes," Studies in Folklore, p. 170) finds the tune in Walsh's Dancing Master of 1731 and<br> as the first air on page 105 of the second volume of Nicholas Bennett's Alawon fy Ngwlad (1896).<br> It has been used for the second figure in the sword dance from the area of Sleights, England. <br> It was printed in Barlow's Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master (1985),<br> Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 1 (1859), Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection<br> of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951), Kines's Songs From Shakespeare's Plays and Popular<br> Songs of Shakespeare's Time (1964), Miller & Perron's 100 Polkas (1978), Raven's English<br> Country Dance Tunes (1984), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and<br> Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740).<br>
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