Banjo tablatures for Cuckoo's Nest

This melody is embraced from the collection of Jeannie Robertson of Aberdeen. And her chronicles of this melody can be found on her Collector EP I Ken "Where I'm Going" (recorded in London, January 1959), on the compilation Songs of Seduction (The Folk Songs of Britain Volume 2; Caedmon 1961; Topic 1968), as the title track of her Prestige/Transatlantic LP The Cuckoo's Nest and Other Scottish Folk Songs and on the Saydisc CD treasury Songs of the Traveling People (recorded in Aberdeen in 1953). It is an amazingly prominent English song known all through the British Isles and British North America whose title, the 'cuckoo's home,' ordinarily alluded to female pubic hair. It dates to any event in the mid-eighteenth century. James Aird's printing in his Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1 (1782, pg. 66) incorporates a fascinating fourth strain, not found in different sources. Matt Seattle (1987, 1994) accepts the tune to initially have been a Scots Measure in D Minor with the title "Come Ashore Jolly Tar (with) Your Trousers On," however takes note of those numerous variants of this tune to exist, with very significant variety between them, in major and minor keys (he comments that the Northumbrian William Vicker's late eighteenth-century setting is clearly minor, in spite of the key signature). The title shows up in various eighteenth and nineteenth-century move accumulations and made Henry Robson's rundown of well known Northumbrian routine tunes, which he distributed c. 1800.