Hey Boys Up Go We
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Hey Boys Up Go We", also known as "The Way to Norwich" is an English country dance<br> tune. The parts are played AABB. The A part is four measures repeated and the B part is<br> 8 measures repeated.<br> The tune was published in the Dancing Master from the supplement to the 6th edition (1679)<br> to the 18th edition (1728) as "Hey Boys, up go We or The King's Jig". Up through the 8th<br> edition it is given in cut time and in G major. From the 9th edition onward it is given in<br> 6/4 time and in D major.<br> In Karpeles & Schofield it is printed as "The Way to Norwich" in 6/8 time and in D major.<br> Douglas and Helen Kennedy printed it as "The Way to Norwich" in the Country Dance,<br> Book new Series (1929).<br> It was also printed in Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes (1986),<br> Barlow's The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1986),<br> Karpeles and Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951) and<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984).<br>
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