Playford: Up tails all - Notes

Up tails all - Notes

There is a different tune with the same title in Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to purge Melancholy, Or Songs of Wit and Mirth (1720). At twice the length, it becomes less annoying for the musicians to play over and over again. The first verse's lyrics are:

There hath a question been of late,
Among the youthful Sort,
What pastime is the pleasantest,
And what the sweetest Sport.
And it hath been adjudged, as well by great and small,
That of all pastimes none is like to Uptailes All.

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