Country Gardens
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Country Gardens", also known as "The Blue Eyed Stranger" or "The Vicar of Bray",<br> is an English Morris tune collected by Cecil Sharp and arranged for<br> piano in 1918 by Percy Grainger.<br> The song was first presented in 1728 in stage production The Quaker's Opera and<br> subsequently appeared many other ballad operas of the 18th century. It was later<br> included in Daniel Wright's Compleat Tutor for Ye Flute (c. 1735).<br> It was used by Gustav Holst in his Six Morris Dance Tunes, Set 1.<br> It was printed in Bacon's The Morris Ring (1974), Barnes' English Country Dance<br> Tunes, vol. 2 (2005), Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 2, (1859),<br> Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951), Mallinson's<br> Mally's Cotswold Morris Book, vol.2 (1988), Neal's Espérance Morris Book (1910),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and Sharp's English Folk-Song (1907).<br>
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