Gee Ho, Dobbin (The Jolly Waggoner)

DESCRIPTION: "As I was a-driving my watton one day, I met a young damsel, tight, buxom, and gay"; the wagoner greets her and bows to her; chorus: "Gee ho, dobbin, hi ho, dobbin, Gee ho, dobbin, gee up and gee ho."
AUTHOR: Music: Thomas Arne ? (Arne wrote the tunes in "Love in a Village")
EARLIEST DATE: 1859 (Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime); tune supposedly from "Love in a Village," 1762
KEYWORDS: courting horse
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime, pp. 690-691, "Gee Ho, Dobbin" (1 excerpt, 1 tune)
Roud #32784
File: CPMGeHoD

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