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LAUDNUM BUNCHES. English, Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major (Mallinson, Williamson): D Major (Bacon). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Williamson): AABBB, AABBB, AACCC, AACCC (Bacon, Mallinson). Laudanum is a tincture of opium, once readily available (although it is not dispensed in 'bunches'). A corruption of the title may be seen in the morris dance tune "Lads a Bunchum." Morris versions were collected from the village of Headington, in England's Cotswolds.

Source for notated version: William Kimber (Kimber was from Oxfordshire and died in 1961 at age 90. Cecil Sharp collected many of the "thousands of tunes" Kimber knew.) {Oxfordshire, England} [Williamson].

Printed sources: Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; pp. 179, 182. Mallinson (Mally's Cotswold Morris Book), 1988; No. 25, p. 18. Williamson (English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes), 1976; p. 18.

Recorded sources: Topic 12T249, "The Art of William Kimber."

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