Tune Pages This is a random collection of dance tunes, with a few related songs added. Some we play for the dancing some we might include in the dance sets if we get around to it. The tunes are in no particular order but an alphabetical index is provided. If you wish to come a long to play along at the Barley Hop Ceilidh Nights the tunes we might be playing have an asterisk by them in the index.

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Page No. Allonby Lasses 8 Bear Dance * 3 Black Jack 3 Black Nag 15 Bob A’Lantern * 9 Bonny Breastknots * 14 Buttered Peas * 14 Church Street * 5 Curly Headed Ploughboy * 13 Drunken Drummer * 5 Drunken Piper 5 Duck’s Eyeballs 13 Dutch Ship 15 First Of April 10 First Of May 12 Gilsland Hornpipe 9 Grassmere Ruchbearing March 4 Green Man 12 Green Sleaves 6 Grim King Of The Ghosts 9 Hardwick Villagers 15 Hunt The Squirrel * 8 Hunting The Hare 8 In The Fields In Frost And Snow 8 Jamaica 2 Jimmy Garson’s March * 4 Liveing Hall (Barley Mow) * 6 Lumps Of Plum Pudding 10 March Past 6 Mock Hobby Horse 6 Nancy Dawson 3 New Rigged Ship 3 News Of The Victory * 2 Over The Waterfall * 4

Rig-A-Jig-Jig * 15 Sellenger’s Round * 7 Sir Roger De Coverley * 9 Speed The Plough * 6 Stanes Morris 12 Star Above The Garter * 16 Three Around Three * 13 Three Sea Captains 16 Three Ships 10 Tip Top Polka * 11 Triumph * 2 Twin Sisters 11 Upton-Upon-Severn Stick Dance * 11 William Taylor’s Table Top Hornpipe * 16 Worcestershire Hornpipe * 14 Young May Moon 14

The Dusty Miller (to the Triumph A and B music)

I'll never dance with a dusty miller

But Johnny with his new coat on

I'll never dance with a dusty miller

But Johnny with his new coat on

Down the middle, down the middle

Play your fiddle, pretty little dear

Up the middle, hey diddle diddle

Forward and backwards, pretty little dear

(to the Triumph A and B music) If you're young and wish to marry

Who'll you choose to be your wife

If you marry John Brown's sister

She will plague you all your life

Don't you tease her, try to please her

For she is my pretty little dear

Don't you tease her, try to please her

For she is my pretty little dear

Of all the girls in our town,

The red, the black, the fair, the brown,

That dance and prance it up and down,

There's none like Nancy Dawson.

Her easy mien, her shape so neat,

She foots, she trips, she looks so sweet;

Her every motion’s so complete,

From The Ballad Of Nancy Dawson

Her easy mien, her shape so neat,

She foots, she trips, she looks so sweet;

Her every motion’s so complete,

I die for Nancy Dawson.

From The Ballad Of Nancy Dawson

Over The Waterfall was collected by Alan Jabbour

from fiddler Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia,

USA. Reed thought he might have learned it after

hearing it played on a steam-driven calliope.

ollected by Alan Jabbour

from fiddler Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia,

USA. Reed thought he might have learned it after

driven calliope.

This Irish polka was associated with the Kerry fiddler Julia Clifford and the

Church Street Club which was a haven for country musicians who had moved to

Dublin in the late 1950s. It was well used in Irish

20th century and is popular with New England contra dance musicians and English

traditional musicians.

English jig – first printed version in 1785.

This Irish polka was associated with the Kerry fiddler Julia Clifford and the

Church Street Club which was a haven for country musicians who had moved to

Dublin in the late 1950s. It was well used in Irish-American music halls in the early

is popular with New England contra dance musicians and English

first printed version in 1785.

There was a fair maid of Islington As I heard many tell And she was going to London town Her pears and apples to sell. As she was going along the road A vintner her did spy And what shall I give fair maid says he One night with you to lie? If you would lie with me one night You must give me five pound. A match, a match the vintner said And so let this go round. When he had lain with her all night Her money she did crave. O no, O no, the vintner said The devil a penny you'll have.

The Fair Maid of Islington

Sellenger’s Round is a very old tune with several

Of The World” and “Caper And Ferk It” (ferk means to dance or jump).

This maid she made no more adoBut to the Justice went:The vintner hired a And will not pay the rent.Then straight the Justice for him sentAnd asked the reason whyThat he would pay this maid no rentTo which he did reply.

Though I hired a cellar of herAnd the possession was mineI ne'er put anything into itBut This fair maid being ripe of witShe straight replied againThere lay two butts at the cellar doorWhy did you not roll them in?

Liveing Hall (MSS spelling) is a well known English jig but

usually with the title The Barley Mow.

(to the tune of Sellenger’s Round)

Sellenger’s Round is a very old tune with several alternative titles, including “The Beginning

Of The World” and “Caper And Ferk It” (ferk means to dance or jump).

This maid she made no more ado But to the Justice went: The vintner hired a cellar of me And will not pay the rent. Then straight the Justice for him sent And asked the reason why That he would pay this maid no rent To which he did reply.

Though I hired a cellar of her And the possession was mine I ne'er put anything into it But one small pipe of wine. This fair maid being ripe of wit She straight replied again There lay two butts at the cellar door Why did you not roll them in?

The Justice told the vintner plainIf he a tenant beHe must expect to pay For he could not sit rentAnd when the maid her money gotShe put it in her purseAnd clapped her hand o'er the cellar doorAnd swore it was never the worse.

Liveing Hall (MSS spelling) is a well known English jig but

usually with the title The Barley Mow.

alternative titles, including “The Beginning

Of The World” and “Caper And Ferk It” (ferk means to dance or jump).

The Justice told the vintner plain If he a tenant be He must expect to pay the price For he could not sit rent-free And when the maid her money got She put it in her purse And clapped her hand o'er the cellar door And swore it was never the worse.

Liveing Hall (MSS spelling) is a well known English jig but

Lumps of plum pudding and pieces of pie

My mother she gave me for telling a lie.

She gave me so much I fear I shall die

From lumps of plum pudding and pieces of pie.

My mother she killed a good fat hog,

She made such puddings would choak a dog;

And I shall ne’er forget till I dee,

What lumps of pudding my mother gave me.

This tune was collected in Newfoundland and put to the Upton stick dance by

the collector, Maud Karpelles. When she collected the dance from the old

dancers they used “Brighton Camp” or “Yankee Doodle”. This tune is now

widely known as “The Upton On Severn Stick Dance” the original title was

“The Twin Sisters” but is not related to the tune below.

The Britannia Coconut Dancers of

Bacup, Lancashire dancing at

Easter, 2015 (Photograph courtesy

of Jack King).

The Tip Top Polka as used by the Britannia Coconut Dancers.

Staines Morris

Come you young men, come along,

With your music, dance and song.

Bring your lasses in your hands

For 'tis that which love commands.

Chorus :

Then to the maypole haste away

For 'tis now our holiday

Then to the maypole haste away

For 'tis now our holiday

'Tis the choice time of the year

For the violets now appear.

Now the rose receives its birth

And the pretty primrose decks the earth.

Chorus

And when you well reckoned have

What kisses you your sweethearts gave,

Take them all again and more,

It will never make them poor.

Chorus

When you thus have spent your time

Till the day be past its prime

To your beds repair at night

And dream there of your day's delight.

Chorus

The Duck’s Eyeballs is also known as the

Rainbow Schottische, Andy Kerrin’s Hornpipe,

Right Foot Left Foot, Stephen Baldwin’s

Schottische, Tom Bhetty’s Hornpipe, and the

Winter Night Schottische.

Hans the duck