Wooden Shoes
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
“Wooden Shoes” first appears in the 8th edition of<br> Henry Playford’s Apollos’s Banquet, Choice New Tunes, Ayres, and<br> Jiggs (1701), under the title “The Wooden Shew Dance”. It next<br> appears in Playford’s The English Dancing Master, 12th edition(1703).<br> It was retained in all subsequent editions through the 18th (1728).<br> It was picked up by the Walsh’s for their own The Compleat Country<br> Dancing Master (1718, 1731) and by Johnson for Wright’s Compleat<br> Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, vol 2 (1742). The title<br> is given variously as “Wooden Shoos”, “Wooden Shooes” or “Wooden Shoes”.<br> As “Wooden Shoes or Bart. Fair” dance instructions appear in the<br> commonplace book of James Alexander, under the heading “List of<br> Dances in N.Y. 1730”.<br>
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