"The Merry Milkmaids" is also known as "The Merry Milkmaids in Green". This air, which Chappell (1849) believes a country dance air from c. 1600 or earlier, was published in The English Dancing Master. Walker (History of Music in England, 1924) concurred with Chappel that the mixolydian tune was "obviously earlier" than the latter half of the 17th century. It was one of the relative handful of tunes that was printed in every edition of the Dancing Master series, which ran from 1651 to 1728 (in the last two editions the title was changed to "The Merry Milkmaids in Green"). It was also printed in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 1 (1859), Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951) and Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909). It was recorded by The Telemann Society on The English Country Dancing Master, vol 2 (1959), The New York Renaissance Band on Country Capers (1994), Hesperus on Early American Roots (1997) and The Baltimore Consort on A Trip to Kilburn (1996).