Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself", in Gaelic "Imtig Do'n Diabal's Corruid Tu Fein", also<br> known as "Come from the Devil and Shake Yourself" "The Growling Woman", "Lord Cornwallis'<br> Jigg", "The One-Legged Man", "The Penniless Traveller" or "When Sick is it Tea You Want?" is a<br> Scottish, Irish and English Jig in D Major (Ashman, Cole, Huntington, Kennedy, O'Neill, Raven,<br> Sumner, Trim) or C Major (Gow, Howe). The parts are played AABB.<br> The title was a fairly popular, if impious, epithet, meaning roughly "Get lost!".<br> The Scots have a claim to provenance, as early versions appear under the "Devil" title in<br> Napier's Selection of Dances (1798), Thompson's Twenty-four Country Dances for the Year 1800<br> (1800), Cahusac's Compleat Tutor for the German Flute (c. 1798), Astor's Hoboy Preceptor,<br> or Military Pieces (c.1800) and Gow's Second Complete Repository (between 1799 and 1836).<br> Perthshire fiddler John Fife included "Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself" in his music<br> manuscript compiled in Scotland and at sea from 1780 to 1804, as did New Romney, Kent, fiddler<br> William Mittell in 1799. In America the tune was published by Joshua Cushing in his Fifer's<br> Companion (Salem, Mass., 1804) and by Daniel Steele in his New and Complete Preceptor for the<br> Fife (c. 1815).<br> It was also printed in Ashman's The Ironbridge Hornpipe (1991),<br> Campbell's Country Dances,<br> Carlin's The Gow Collection (1986),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> DeVille's The Violin Player's Pastime,<br> Gow's Complete Repository, Part 2, (1802),<br> Hopkins's American Veteran Fifer (1905),<br> Howe's Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon (c. 1843),<br> Howe's Musician's Omnibus,<br> Huntington's William Litten's (1977),<br> Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 2 (1954),<br> Levey's The Dance Music of Ireland,<br> Mattson & Walz's Old Fort Snelling/Fife (1974),<br> O'Flannagan's Hibernia Collection (1860),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907),<br> Preston's Preston's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1798 (1798),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Skillern's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1799 (1799),<br> Sumner's Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript (1997),<br> Trim's Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy (1990) and<br> Wilson's Companion to the Ball Room (1816).<br> It was recorded by Alick Gillis and His Inverness Serenaders (1934) and<br> Joseph Cormier & J.P. Cormier on Velvet Arm, Golden Hand.<br>
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