"The Tenpenny Bit", also known as "10 Penny Bit", "Billy’s Awake", "Coffee And Tea", "Jan Koop Mij Kermis", "The Ten Franc Piece", "Ten Penney Bit", "The Ten Penny Bit", "The Three Little Drummer Boys" or "The Three Little Drummers" is an Irish (originally), English and American double jig in A Dorian. The parts are played AABB. From the 16th to the 19th centuries a common term for a small piece of money, especially the lowest denomination of silver coin, was ‘bit’ (and its variant ‘bite’). Thus, ‘fourpenny-bit’, and the title of this tune, ‘tenpenny-bit’. A secondary meaning is ‘bit’ as referring to a woman, usually in a sexual way. In this sense a ‘tenpenny bit’ may refer to a prostitute. Despite the similarity in titles, this tune is not at all like "The Threepenny Bit" which is a reel while this tune is a jig. This jig is popular in several genres: New England contra dance musicians play it and it is one of the jigs commonly played by English musicians for rapper sword dancing (along with "The Blackthorn Stick" and "Connaghtman’s Rambles"). It was printed in Allan's Irish Fiddler, S. Johnson's The Kitchen Musician No. 4: Collection of Fine Tunes (1983), Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 1 (1951), Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1, Martin & Hughes' Ho-ro-gheallaidh (1990), Miller & Perron's New England Fiddlers Repertory (1983), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and Sweet's Fifer’s Delight (1965). It was recorded by John J. Kimmel on John J. Kimmel. Early Recordings of Irish Traditional Dance Music (1918), Patsy Touhey on The Piping of Patsy Touhey (1919), Frank Quinn and Joe Maguire on The Wheels of the World (1926), John and James Kelly with Michael Crehan and Michael Gavin on Irish Traditional Fiddle Music (1973) and Aoife Ní Chaoimh and Paudie O'Connor on Didn't She Dance and Dance (2014).