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