Dusky Night,The - Revision history

JohnnyAdams: Added link to The Fiddler's Companion

2009-03-17T20:13:21Z

Added link to The Fiddler's Companion

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	Source: Chappell's ''Popular Music of the Olden Time''		Source: Chappell's ''Popular Music of the Olden Time''

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			Further information at [http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/DUN_DYING.htm The Fiddler's Companion]


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JohnnyAdams: Words added

2009-03-17T20:06:12Z

Words added

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	[[William Chappell]] writes in [[Popular Music of the Olden Time]] that the song ''The Dusky Night'' was written by Henry Fielding for his ballad-opera ''Don Quixote in England'' (1734) to the tune of ''A begging we will go''. However, many printed sources show these words set to the tune above.		[[William Chappell]] writes in [[Popular Music of the Olden Time]] that the song ''The Dusky Night'' was written by Henry Fielding for his ballad-opera ''Don Quixote in England'' (1734) to the tune of ''A begging we will go''. However, many printed sources show these words set to the tune above.


			THE DUSKY night rides down the sky,

			And ushers in the morn;

			The hounds all join in glorious cry,

			The huntsman winds his horn,

			And a-hunting we will go.


			The wife around her husband throws

			Her arms, and begs his stay;

			‘My dear, it rains, and hails, and snows,

			You will not hunt to-day?’

			But a-hunting we will go.


			‘A brushing fox in yonder wood

			Secure to find we seek:

			For why? I carried, sound and good,

			A cartload there last week,

			And a-hunting we will go.’


			Away he goes, he flies the rout,

			Their steeds all spur and switch,

			Some are thrown in, and some thrown out,

			And some thrown in the ditch;

			But a-hunting we will go.


			At length his strength to faintness worn,

			Poor Reynard ceases flight;

			Then, hungry, homeward we return,

			To feast away the night.

			Then a-drinking we will go.

			Source: Chappell's ''Popular Music of the Olden Time''

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JohnnyAdams: New page for Dusky Night

2009-03-17T19:55:24Z

New page for Dusky Night

New page

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This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume 4 [[Index to Thompson's 200 Series|Index]]

===Song===

[[William Chappell]] writes in [[Popular Music of the Olden Time]] that the song ''The Dusky Night'' was written by Henry Fielding for his ballad-opera ''Don Quixote in England'' (1734) to the tune of ''A begging we will go''. However, many printed sources show these words set to the tune above.