The tune ‘as sung by the late Mrs. Sheridan’ may be found in John Stafford Smith’s Musica Antiqua (1812), vol. i. p. 65, and Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, tune No. 7.
SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW’S DAUGHTER
1.
Four and twenty bonny boys
Were playing at the ba’,
And by it came him sweet Sir Hugh,
And he play’d o’er them a’.
2.
He kick’d the ba’ with his right foot,