Medley

The Escape of Old John Webber is a swashbuckling ballad once much sung in Massachusetts. Related to the earlier Child ballad Archie of Cawfield, it may have been written in the 1740's when Massachusetts currency was changed from old tenor to new. Money in Both Pocket is a popular jig found in Scottish, English, Irish and American tune collections starting around 1785. Pea Straw or Pease Strae, a commonly played reel or Country Dance Tune throughout Scotland, England and America in the 18th century, first appears in the Scottish Holmain Manuscript (1710-50)
and in the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Early
• American
• traditional
• eighteenth
• century
• penny
• whistle
• Medley