When I previously blogged the old old sheet music for “Pompey Ran Away”, I used a scan that only an insane person would try to read:

To make restitution I dug up a better source and clipped out the image for myself and am herein sharing a version that will not cause you to go blind:

I found it on page 57 of a PDF at imslp of Volume 1 of James Aird’s 1782 music book “A SELECTION of Scotch, Englith, Irith, and Foreign AIRS Adapted to the FIFE, VIOLIN, or GERMAN-FLUTE”

Some funny song titles from that book:

• Bung Your Eye
• Carlen Is Your Daughter Ready
• The Widow’s Rant
• Had the Lafs till I win at her
• My Wife’s a Wanton Wee Thing
• For a’that and a’that
• My Mother’s aye Glowring o’er me

And my favorite:

• I’ll Touzle Your Kurchy