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Description: | This tune is found in several manuscripts in near-identical form to Vickers, though with different titles. Vickers' title tells its own story, but two other titles seem to refer to a Scottish song recorded in the St. Clair manuscript with the lines, which fit the tune - 'I gotten the laddie that I liked sair, (x 3) And I'll never lie wi' my auld minny nae mair.' Of more local interest, I Cannot Get To My Love and I Should Die is the title in the lost John Smith manuscript of 1752, a partial copy (by J Stokoe) of which is in Newcastle Society of Antiquaries manuscript Mu 34. As this is also a line from the song Water Of Tyne, perhaps it was formerly sung to this tune. Grace's Farewell is the title of the two known older printed versions, which are less satisfactory than the manuscript ones.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:R0304103 | Go to resource |
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