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