Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

300 traditional songs, inc sheet music with full piano accompaniment & lyrics.

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OUR FAMILIAR SONGS.
BEGONE! DULL CARE.
This song dates from the sixteenth century, when it was entitled " Begone, Oldur The tune was altered from " The Queen's Jig." Its popularity dates from its revival present form in a pantomime ballet called " William Tell," performed in 1792, at Sadlers Wells, the oldest theatre in London.