Bonnets so Blue
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Bonnets of Blue", also known as "Bonnets o' Blue" is an English country and Morris<br> dance tune in 6/8 time and G Major (Carlin, Mallinson, Wade), D Major (Karpeles,<br> Kennedy & Raven) or C Major (Bacon, Barnes). It is played as AB (Carlin), AAB (Raven, Wade),<br> ABC (Barnes, Sharp), AABC (Karpeles & Kennedy) or ABCBC (Bacon, Mallinson).<br> The Cotswold morris version is from the village Bucknell, Oxfordshire.<br> A similar tune was collected in Brackley, Northampton, where it is a solo jig dance.<br> Wade's version is from the North West (England) morris tradition and is used for either<br> polka or single step. One collector found the melody in the repertoire of fiddler<br> William Tilbury, in his younger days, played the fiddle at village dances.<br> He learned his repertoire from an uncle, Fiddler Hammond, who died around 1870, and who<br> had been the village fiddler before him. The conclusion was that "Bonnets of Blue" and<br> similar old country dance tunes survived in the tradition (at least in southwest Surrey)<br> well into the second half of the 19th century. <br> It was printed in Bacon's A Handbook of Morris Dances (1974), Carlin's Master Collection (1984)<br> Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951), Kennedy's<br> Fiddler's Tune-Book, vol. 1 (1951), Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (appears as "Bonnets o' Blue"),<br> Mallinson's Mally's Cotswold Morris Book, vol. 2 (1988), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes<br> (1984), Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909), Wade's Mally's North West Morris Book (1988).<br>
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