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Air : " The Priest in his Boots." The tune known as " Murphy Delaney," but which also occurs in Rutherford's 200 Country
Dances, 1748-9, as " The Miser," was evidently associated with an old song entitled " The Parson in his hoots," and under this -
name we And Bremner printing it in his Reels and Countn/ Dances, book ii., 1757. I am inclined to think that the above air is
merely a transformation of "Murphy Delaney." As "The Priest in his Boots," a variation of it is in C. and S. Thompson s