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The Cheshire Rounds was Top of the Pops, appearing all over the U.K. Here is monster 12 part version.
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Another big hit - this version from Lancashire - England Early 19th Century.
Go to Berwick Johnny
Not much remains of the probable, miriad verses :--
Go, Go, Go
Go to Berwick Johnny,
Thou shall have the horse,
And I shall have the pony.
A Scottish version (circa 1750) ran as follows :
Go to Berwick Johnny,
On yer braid sword bind ye;
Wi' a' my graith upon me,
I'll be close behind ye'
You'll ride on the colt
And I'll ride on the filly;
Saddle Horse and Mare
And we'll go to Berwick, Billy
This tune was written by Tony and was inspired by the old Horse Trails over the Pennine Hills from Lancashire to Yorkshire. (Note Saddleworth was in Yorkshire at that time). Just outside Uppermill, the Cross Keys Pub would have been a major service station before the trek across the Moors. Superceeded, first by the canal (Standedge Tunnel is the Longest canal tunnel in Europe, and starts in Diggle), then by the railway and finally by the M62 motorway.
Above is the Burns version of the Dusty Miller, contributed to the Musical Museum 1788. A older and more original version goes:
There was a Jolly Miller once
Lived on the river Dee;
He worked and sang from morn till night,
No Lark more bright than he.
And this the burden of his song
Forever used to be,
I care for nobody, no! not I,
If nobody cares for me.
Hey the Dusty Miller
This song is from Issak Bickerstaffe's Love in a Village. Music composed
and arranged by Arne. The Jolly Miller was an old tune at that time (1762),
and had appeared in ballad operas from 1728. The old Dee Mill at Chester,
where the legendary Miller of Dee plied his trade, was burnt down in 1895.
It stood on the Dee bridge, where there had been a Mill since the 11th century.
The tune was also popular in Scotland, were it was miss-interpreted as the
Scottish river Dee.
The tune was published in Walshes Complete Dancing Master, 1708.
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