#367 - Rig-a-Jig

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• Composer:
  • traditional
• Also known as:
  • Lubly Fan
  • Buffalo Gals
• MIDI | show
  
• Incipit: 5565565355424653556556531777671
• Condensed Incipit: 565653542465356565317671
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• Lyrics:
  As I was walking down the street,
  Heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho.
  A pretty girl I chance to meet,
  Heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho.
  
  chorus:
  Rig-a-jig-jig and away we go, away we go, away we go,
  Rig-a-jig-jig and away we go, heigho, heigho, heigho,
  Heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho,
  Rig-a-jig-jig and away we go, heigho, heigho, heigho.
  
  Said I to her “What is your trade?”
  Heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho.
  She said to me “I'm a weaver's maid.”
  Heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho.
  
  “Say, my little miss, won't you marry me?”,
  Heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho.
  “A soldier's wife then you would be.”
  Heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho.
  
  “Yes, kind sir, I will marry you;”
  Heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho.
  “A soldier's wife then I will be.”
  Heigho, heigho, heigho, heigho.
  
  
  • (unknown)

The melody and opening lyrics are quite similar to Buffalo Gals, which was first published by Cool White (John Hodges), a blackface minstrel with the Virginia Serenaders, in 1844 as Lubly Fan. The melody is similar to Im Grunewald, im Grunewald ist Holzauktion, a music hall song from Germany.