"Over the Water", also known as "Over the Water to Charlie" is an English jig in F Major. The parts are played AABABA. This is similar to the Jacobite song "Over the Water to Charlie" but it is not the same tune. The melody first appears in print under this title in John Walsh’s Compleat Country Dancing Master, volume the Third (1749). It also appears in David Rutherford’s Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances (1756) and in a few publications by Charles and Samuel Thompson, including their 1757 country dance collection and a tutor for the hautboy (oboe) printed in 1758 and again in 1770. Cheapside, London, musician Walter Rainstorp included it in his music manuscript copybook, begun in 1747, as did London flute player John Simpson (1750). It was also printed in Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (1757).