From: [Various vocal and instrumental music]
The British union-catalogue of early music printed before the year 1801, ed. Edith B. Schnapper (London: Butterworth Scientific Publications, 1957) lists various imprints of a song with this textual incipit, all set by Egide-Joseph-Ignace-Antoine Albanese and dating from c. 1780. No earlier textual concordances were found in Cyrus Lawrence Day and Eleanore Boswell Murrie, English song-books, 1651-1702: a bibliography (London: Bibliographical Society, 1940).
Key: C
Tempo: 2[/2]
Medium: gui