SUKEY BIDS ME. AKA - "Sucky Bids Me." Scottish, English, American; Reel. England, Northumberland. USA, New England. G Major. Standard. AAB (Athole, Gow, Kerr, Vickers): AABB (Coles). The melody appears earliest in the English publications Johnson's 200 Country Dances (1751) and Rutherford's 200 Country Dances (1756), page 25. The Gillespie Manuscript of Perth, 1768, gives a Scottish version, while in America it appears in the Walpole, New Hampshire, A Collection of Contra Dances, 1799. Dance directions to the tune appear in Clement Weeks' Greenland, New Hampshire, dance MS copybook of 1783 (page 20). Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 461. Cole (1001 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 41. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 2, 1802; pg. 17 (appears as "Sucky bids me"). Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 2; No. 127, pg. 15. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 174. Seattle (William Vickers), 1987, Part 3; No. 422.
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