(Come) Haste to the Wedding

X: 2
T: (Come) Haste to the Wedding	% most common title
T: the Small Pin Cushion	% James Oswald's 1760 title
T: Rural Felicity		% Wilcon's "Companion to the Ballroom"
T: the Capture of Carrickfergusby	% Manx ballad (1760)
O: 1760
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
% This is quite similar to the very early versions of the tune:
B: James Oswald "Caledonian Pocket Companion" Book 10 (London, 1760)
B: William Clark of Lincoln music manuscript collection (1770, #25)
Z: 2005 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: Cole p.53
B: Called "The Small Pin Cushion" in J. Oswald's "Caledonian Pocket Companion" (bk. 10, c 1760)
B: Called "Carrick Fergus" in J. Brysson's "A Curious Collection of Favourite Tunes" (Edinburgh 1791)
N: "The tune 'Come, Haste to the Wedding,' of Gaelic origin, was introduced in the pantomime, The Elopement, staged in London in 1767." (Linscott, 1939)
K: D
F/G/ \
| "D"A>BA Agf | "G"ede "A7"fdB | "D"A>BA "Bm"AdF | "Em"GFG "A7"EFG |
"D"A>BA Aaf | "G"ede "A7"fdB | "D"A>BA "A7"faf | "D"d>ed d2 :|
|: f/g/ |\
"D"a>fa afa | "G"b>gb "(A7)"bag | "D"fga "Bm"agf | "Em"g>fg "A7"efg |
"D"a2z "Bm"f2z | "Em"ede "A7"fdB | "D"A>BA "A7"faf | "D"d>ed d2 :|

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Vintage/LCD/HasteToTheWedding/0002
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Vintage/program/LCD/HasteToTheWedding/0002

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