The Fit's Come On Me Now
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Fit's Come On Me Now" also known as "The Bishop of Chester's Jig", "The Fit is Come Ower Me Now"<br> is an English country dance tune in 9/4 time in F Mixolydian. The parts are played<br> AABB.<br> The air dates to 1686 where it appears in the 7th edition of Playford's Dancing Master. From the<br> 9th edition it was called "The Bishop of Chester's Jig" in the Playford publications.<br> However, perhaps an older version of the air appears in the Panmure MS #9454 Seventy Seven Dances,<br> Songs and Scots Airs for Violin, c. 1675. Robin Williamson’s opinion is that the Panmure<br> version is "a quirky piece of unusual structure".<br> It was printed in Barlow's The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1985),<br> Barnes's English Country Dance Tunes (1986), Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Times vol. 2<br> (1859), Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909).<br>
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