WCL052

William Clark

This tune, The Retreat is a missing link between an earlier version called The Buff Coat Hath No Fellow and a later version called She Wants a Fellow.

The 'Buff Coat' version features in one of the Playford published dance books and in Morpeth musician Henry Atkinson's manuscript book of 1694,

The later 'She Want's a Fellow' version is in a manuscript from the Lake District, possibly attributable to James Lishman, Dancing Master.

Links:

ABC code of She Wants a Fellow is available on the Village Music Project - Scroll down to Tune 17

ABC code of The Buff Coat Hath/has no Fellow is available on the Village Music Project - Scroll down to Tune 49

An image of Henry Atkinson's version is viewable at The Farne Archive