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