John come Kiss me now
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"John Come Kiss Me Now" is an English and Scottish air and country dance in 4/4 or cut time<br> and G Major (Chappell) or F Major (Emmerson, Johnson). It is played in one part (Chappell)<br> or AB (Emmerson, Johnson). It was originally an English tune appearing in the Cuming<br> Manuscript (a fiddle book from Edinburgh, 1723-4), the McFarlane Manuscript, 1740,<br> and the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768) The title also appears in Henry Robson's list<br> of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes (The Northern Minstrel's Budget), which he<br> published c. 1800.<br> The morris dance tune "Shepherd's Hey" is similar to the first (and sometimes sole) part<br> of "John Come Kiss Me Now".<br> Chappell (1859) found it in The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (c. 1650, credited to<br> William Byrd), Robinson's New Citharen Lessons (1609), Airs and Sonnets and a MS in the<br> British Museum. It also appears in Playford's Introduction to the Skill of Music (1654),<br> Musick's Delight on the Cithren (1666), A Book of Lessons for the Cithern & Gittern (1652),<br> Apollo's Banquet for the Treble Violin, D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy, McGibbon's<br> Scots Tunes (1768).<br> It was printed in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4 (1796),<br> Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 1 (1859),<br> Emmerson's Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String (1971),<br> Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (1792) and<br> Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6 (1760).<br> It was recorded by The Baltimore Consort on A Trip to Killburn,<br> Robin Williamson on Legacy of the Scottish Harpers and<br> Hesperus on Early American Roots (1997).<br>
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