Annotation:Rigs o' Marlow

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X: 1 T:Rigs o' Marlow, Headington M:4/4 L:1/8 A:Headington P:A(A2B2)4 K:C Q:260 P:A c<e c<e c<e ed/c/|B<d B<d B<d fe/d/|c<e c<e c<e g>c' |a>fd>B c2 c2 || P:B c'>ag>f e>f g2 |c'>ag>f e2 d2 |c'>ag>f e>c f>f |e<c d<B c2 c2 ||

RIGS O' MARLOW. AKA and see "Rakes of Mallow (The)." English, Morris Dance Tune (4/4 time). A Major (Bacon): G Major (Mallinson): C Major (Karpeles). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB, x4. Originally Irish. The English morris dance version of the old Irish tune "Rakes of Mallow (The)" was collected from the village of Headington, Oxfordshire, in England's Cotswolds.

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 176. Karpeles & Schofield (A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs), 1951; p. 33. Mallinson (Mally’s Cotswold Morris Book, vol. 2), 1988; No. 18, p. 10.

Recorded sources: - EMI/Harvest 7243 8 29861 2 6, Ashley Hutchings et al - "Son of Morris On" (1976/1994).