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