The Blue Eyed Stranger
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Blue Eyed Stranger" is an English Morris dance tune in 2/4 or 4/4 time in C Major (Karpeles),<br> G Major (Bacon, Barnes, Mallinson) and E Minor (Bacon). It is played AAB (x4) (Bacon,Karpeles),<br> ABB, x4 (Barnes, Mallinson) or AABB (Bacon).<br> One of the earliest recordings of the melody was in 1909 when Cecil Sharp waxed it on a cylinder<br> from the playing of John Locke, Leominster, Hereford, described as a "gipsy fiddler".<br> He also recorded "The Staffordshire Hornpipe" from the same player.<br> "Blue-Eyed Stranger" has similarities to the English air "Just as the Tide was Flowing", popular<br> on early 19th century broadsides, the Irish air "The Peacock" and, perhaps more distantly,<br> "The Deadly Wars" and "The Parting Glass".<br> It was used by Gustav Holst in his Six Morris Dance Tunes, Set 2 and his Second Suite in F.<br> It was printed in Bacon's A Handbook of Morris Dances (1974), Barnes's English Country Dance<br> Tunes, vol. 2 (2005), Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951),<br> Mallinson's Mally's Cotswold Morris Book, vol. 2 (1988) and Raven's English Country Dance Tunes<br> (1984). <br> <br> <br>
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