- Style
- Celtic
- Tradition
- Irish, English and Scottish
- Form
- Jig
- Key
- D
- Level
- 2
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
The title comes from a song, "Come Haste to the Wedding," sung in a London pantomime called The Elopement in 1767. William Chappell traced the tune to that show, but it is older: James Oswald printed it as "The Small Pin Cushion" in his Caledonian Pocket Companion around 1760.
The song kept the title fixed to the tune for more than two centuries. It turns up in English morris dancing, Irish céilí sets, New England contra dances and Canadian quadrilles.
Come haste to the wedding, ye friends and ye neighbours, The lovers their bliss can no longer delay.