"The Twenty-Ninth of May", also known as "All Things Bright and Beautiful", "May Hill", "The Jovial Crew", "The Jovial Beggars" or "Restoration of King Charles" is an English Morris and country dance tune in cut or 4/4 time and D Major (Barnes, Karpeles, Kidson, Raven, Sharp)or G Major (Bacon, Callaghan, Mallinson). The parts are played AB (Sharp), AAB (Barnes, Karpeles, Kidson, Raven), AABA (Bacon) or AABB, x4 (Callaghan, Mallinson).
The air was published in Playford's Dancing Master, 7th edition (1686) and all later editions, sometimes even appearing twice, with different names (such as "The Jovial Beggars"). It also appears in Playford’s Apollo’s Banquet.
The title date refers to the day Charles II landed in England in the year 1660 to be returned to the crown. An act of Parliament later that same year decreed the date should be a day of thanksgiving, to “be celebrated in every church and chapel in England and the dominions thereof”. It was observed until 1859. The date happened to be the king’s birthday as well as his return day.
The morris dance version was collected from the village of Headington, Oxfordshire, in England's Cotswolds.
The Anglican church has long had a hymn set to the tune known as "All Things Bright and Beautiful".
It was printed in Bacon's The Morris Ring (1974), Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes (1986), Callaghan's Hardcore English (2007), Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 2 (1859), Elias Howe's Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (1880-1882), Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951), Kidson's Old English Country Dances (1890), Mallinson's Mally’s Cotswold Morris Book (1988), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909).