Three Sheep Skins
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Three Jolly Sheepskins", also known as "Hamilton Races" or "Three Sheepskins" is a Scottish<br> and English air and country dance.<br> Chappell records that the tune first appeared in Henry Playford's Dancing<br> Master (10th ed.) of 1698. In editions 10 - 16 it was given in D mixolydian. In the last<br> two editions (17 & 18) is was given in A mixolydian.<br> Another printing appears in London publisher John Walsh’s Compleat Country Dancing Master<br> (1718). Glasgow musician James Aird printed the tune on the same page as several other trade<br> tunes (such as "The Hammermens' March" and "The Taylors' March"), indicating the melody was<br> associated with the tanning trade and the Incorporation of Skinners.<br> "Three Sheepskins" was used as "The Skinners' March".<br> "Three Sheepskins" also appears in Scottish musician and<br> dancing master David Young's MacFarlane Collection (c. 1740).<br> As a song air, “Three Sheepskins” was used in the 18th century ballad operas Polly,<br> The Devil to Pay and The Jealous Clown.<br> It was printed in Barlow's The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master<br> (1986) and Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, Volume the Fourth (1740).<br> It was recorded by Dave Shepherd & Becky Price on Ashburnham and<br> Robin Williamson on Legacy of the Scottish Harpers, vol. 1.<br>
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