Greensleeves and Pudding Pies (Playford), on mandolin

This is an English country dance tune from the seventh edition of Playford’s Dancing Master (1686), also under the alternative title “Greensleeves and Yellow Lace“. Played on my Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin. The Fiddler’s Companion says: “GREEN SLEEVES/SLIEVS AND PUDDING PIES/PYS [4] (“Muincilli Uaitne“ or “Muintide Glas“). AKA and see “Green Sleeves,: “Green Sleeves and Yellow Lace,“ “Little bogtrotter.“ English, Scottish, Irish; Double Jig and Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Dorian (Raven): G Minor (Barnes, Raven): A Minor (Cole, O’Neill): E Minor (Kines). Standard tuning. One part (Kines): AABB (Barnes, O’Neill, Raven): AABB’ (Alburger): AABBCC (Johnson). From the Margaret Sinkler MS., 1710. It “was registered with the Stationer’s Company in 1580 (an early method of trying to secure a publication so that no one could copy it) as ’A new Northern Dittye’. To Shakespeare, as well as to Margaret Sinkl