Annotation:Grandfather's Tune (1)
Tune properties and standard notation
GRANDFATHER'S TUNE. AKA - "Grandfather's Polka." English, Morris Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The tune has been employed in the North-West England morris dance tradition for a polka step. Phillip Heath Coleman has identified the tune as "a simplified ('disarpeggiated') and rather zippy version of the Cliff(e) Hornpipe. One member of the [Dorset Trio] described it as his "grandfather's tune", whence the popular title of the version now in circulation."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Wade (Mally's North West Morris Book), 1988; p. 28.
Recorded sources: Flowers and Frolics - "Bees on Horseback" (2008).