Swaggering Boney
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Swaggering Boney", also known as "The Old Frog Dance" is an English morris dance tune<br> in 6/8 time and G Major. The parts are played AABBB (x4), AACCC (x4), AA. The morris<br> dance version was collected from the village of Longborough, Gloucestershire, in<br> England's Cotswolds, but "the tune was apparently popular all over England, as a<br> number of different songs were written to it" (Williamson, 1976).<br> The title refers to Napoleon Bonaparte, dating the tune from the late 1700's to early 1800's.<br> "Swaggering Boney" was a flattering nickname given to Napoleon Bonaparte, a<br> frequent character in English and Irish folklore (he's often the hero in Irish<br> songs and the villain in English ones).<br> It was printed in Bacon's The Morris Ring (1974),<br> Mallinson's Mally’s Cotswold Morris Book (1976) and<br> Williamson's English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes (1976).<br> It was recorded by Martin Carthy on Because It's There (1979); it was reissued in 1993 on<br> The Collection.<br>
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