"An Old Man is a Bed Full of Bones" is an English country dance tune in 6/4 time and A Minor. The title originally referred to the name of the dance ("Longways for as many as will"), while the tune was called "Cock Robin," or "Cock Laurel". In the Pattricke Manuscript (also called the "Lovelace Manuscript", an untitled copybook dating to at least 1649, now at the Houghton Library, Harvard), for example, the country dance "The old man with a bed full of bones" (no. 13) is given with the instruction to be played to the tune of "Cooke Laurrel". The "Cock Loerel" or "Cook Laweel" tune is in Choice Collection of 180 Loyal Songs, etc. (1685) and in D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719) and is itself a song and appears in Ben Jonson's masque The Gypsies Metamorphosed. The Cock Laurel character was a notorious rogue or knave in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The "Old Man is a Bed Full of Bones" title comes from a song, four lines of which Chappell (1858) found quoted in Rowley's A Match at Midnight. The tune (as "An old man is a bed full of bones") appears in the first edition of John Playford's (1623-1686) English Dancing Master (1651), reprinted in subsequent Dancing Master editions through the sixteenth edition of 1716, then printed in London by John Young. It was also published by John Walsh in The Compleat Country Dancing Master (1718). An Irish derivation of the melody goes by the title "The Priest in His Boots". It was printed in Barlow's Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1985) and Barnes's English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2 (2005). It was recorded by Pyewackett on 7PM till Midnight.