Bung yer Eye
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Bung Yer Eye", also known as "The Brisk Young Lad", "The Earl of Dunmore",<br> "The High Cauld Cap", "The Jolly Old Man", "Lanigan's Ball", "Mary the Maid"<br> and many other names.<br> It is Scottish and English with many occurences in America under various names.<br> The term 'bung your eye' means to 'shut your eye', taken from the bung used to<br> stopper a hole in a cask,. 'Bung your eye' was also a euphemism for gin<br> in the sense that an excess of gin will 'bung your eye' through blind drunkenness.<br> It was printed in Robert Ross's A Choice Collection of Scots Reels or<br> Country Dances & Strathspeys (1780), Aird's Selection of Scotch, English,<br> Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1 (1782), Gow's 1st Repository (1799),<br> Sharps Country Dance Tunes (1909), Williamson's English, Welsh, Scottish and<br> Irish Fiddle Tunes (1976), Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (as Lanigan's Ball)(1981).<br> It also appears in Moon's Musick of the Fifes and Drums, vol. 3 Medleys in Medley 3<br> Scottish Dances.<br>
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