"Cornwallis Country Dance" is an American song inspired by the final southern campaign of the Revolutionary War. Burgoyne was defeated at Saratoga, Howe was in Philadelphia and Cornwallis campaigned in Carolina and Virgina. Although he took Charleston and Savannah, the guerrilla warfare of Marion, Sumter, and the Mountain Boys made his campaign ineffective. His retreating and advancing, as he fought General Green back and forth through North Carolina, reminded an unknown balladeer of the "Contra Dance", where two facing lines move back and forth. The melody of the song is the English contra dance tune "Pop Goes The Weasel". It was recorded by Dorothy Mesney on Patchwork and Powder Horn: Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution and Burl Ives on Burl Ives Presents America's Musical Heritage, vol 2: Songs of the Revolution. It was printed in Brand's Songs of 76 (1972), Ives' The Burl Ives Songbook (1953), Silber's Songs of Independence (1973), Vinson's Early American Songbook.