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Description: | A Northumbrian pipers' classic, also found as a Scottish and Irish pipe tune, and even as a country dance published by Playford as early as 1698 (PDM No. 385). John Bell collected two different short lyrics, Cuddle Me Cuddy and The Peacock And The Hen, which give us two of the tune's titles. Both lyrics are a little suggestive, while the Scottish lyric Brose And Butter, collected by Burns around 1786, has some lines in common with The Peacock and is more than a little suggestive.This tune forms part of the The William Vickers' manuscript, dated 1770. The Index to the manuscript shows that part of the book is now missing, but the very substantial surviving part contains 580 tunes, or 'Country Dances' as the author calls them. It is not easy to pinpoint Vickers's location as his name is not uncommon, but he may be the William Vickers who shows up in genealogical records as an 'Officer of Exise' [sic] in Newcastle. It is fairly safe to assume that the collection was made in North East England because although it contains a lot of Scottish and English tunes it has local material which is not found in other sources. ; 18th century tune book compiled by William Vickers | Rights holder: | rights holder : Society of Antiquaries | Temporal: | start=1761;end=1800; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:R0301502 | Go to resource |
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