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"We Won’t Go Home Till Morning", also known as "Malbrook", "Marlbrouk", "Marlbrough" and
"For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" is an English, French, Irish air, country and Morris dance
and Jig tune in 6/8 time.The tune probably originated in 18th century France. Kidson (1915)
reports it was a favorite with Queen Marie Antoinette, who learned it from a peasant woman
brought in to nurse her child.
It was the vehicle for a morris dance collected from the village of Bidford, Warwickshire, in England's Cotswolds. Karpeles & Schofield specify playing the parts ABA and repeating BA until done. It was printed in Bacon's The Morris Ring (1974), Hopkins's American Veteran Fifer (1905), Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951), Merryweather's Merryweather’s Tunes for the English Bagpipes (1989), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909). Besides "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" the tune is also used for "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" that we all knew as kids. |