Three Jolly Sheepskins
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Three Jolly Sheepskins" is the third tune in the sword dance sequence from Sleights<br> in North Yorkshire, which had a longsword dance tradition collected by Cecil Sharp.<br> This is not the same tune as the "Jolly Sheepskins" found in Playford's Dancing Master<br> editions 10 to 18 or "The Three Jolly Black Sheepkins" Morris dance.<br> It was printed in Raven's One Thousand English Country Dance Tunes (1999) and<br> Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951).<br>
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