X:620170
T:GB/6b/17 The Tinker
C:Sung by Mr. James Landamore, Wroxham, Norfolk, April 1910
C:Collected by FW Jekyll and GSK Butterworth
F:http://archives.vwml.org/record/GB/6b/17
Z:Transcribed by Simon Furey and Lewis Jones
L:1/8
M:6/8
Q:"(Editorial suggestion)" 3/8=80
K:Fmix
C2 D | E2 E C2 D | EDE C3 | F=EF GAB | A2 G HF2 G | c2 B c2 A |BAG c2 B |
 c2 F F2 G |F2 E C2 D | EDE C2 D | EDE C3 | F=EF GAB | AGA F3 |]

%%text Collector's notes: Words not noted. GSKB 
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%%text This tune is very similar to ´Bridgwater Fair' (Folksongs from Somerset).
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%%text Anonymous note in the MS: To Mr Keel. This seems to be an old country dance air. 
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%%text A lively tune of the same character is sung in Scotland to the "Tinkler's Waddin'", 
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%%text written by William Watt (1792 to 1859). There may have been a dance tune
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%%text by that name (the Tinker) to which Watt's song was written.
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%%text Editorial notes: This is a version of "The Tinker's Courtship". 
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%%text For a fuller version with copious notes on it see p.103 and p. 141 of Frank Purslow's "The Constant Lovers".