Joe the Railway Porter

X:26
T:Joe the Railway Porter
S:collected from Eileen McCoy
B:"Apple Shed Tune Book", 2nd edn, Steve & Marjorie Gadd (eds), March 2004, p49
N:Other versions: This tune can be traced back to the 1750s.
N:VMP, R. Dalton MS, No 101, (1841) as "Merrily Danc'd the Quakers"
N:VMP, William Clarke MS, No 19, (1770), as "So merrily Dances ye Quakers"
N:James Kerr "Merry Melodies" v.1 p.32, No 18, (c.1880) as "Merily Danced The Quaker's Wife"
N:Other versions collected in Australia
N:A.Laing MS, No 87 c.1862, as "O'er the Water to Charlie"
N:Harry Schafer MS, no 47, as "Over the Water to Charlie"
F:https://tunearch.org/wiki/Merrily_Danced_the_Quaker
R:Jig
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
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Joe the Railway Porter - played by Ray Mulligan

Additional Information

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| Eileen McCoy |