Balance the Straw (1)

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Theme code Index	3334 4223
Also known as	Balance a Straw, From the Man I Love, Tulip (The), Lads a Bunchum (1), Captain and His Whiskers (The), Captain with His Whiskers (The)
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English, Morris
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of
Accidental
Mode
Time signature	4/4
History	ENGLAND(South Midlands)
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Lionel Bacon
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Morris Ring (The)
Tune and/or Page number	pp. 21, 93, & 104
Year of publication/Date of MS	1974
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BALANCE THE/A STRAW [1]. AKA and see "From the Man I Love," "Tulip (The)," "Lads a Bunchum (1)," "Captain and His Whiskers (The)." English (originally), American; Country and Morris Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Bacon, Ascot-Under-Wychwood): AABCC (Raven, Bledington version): AAB, CCB, CCB (Mallinson, Bledington version). The melody and title are derived from the chorus of the first and last stanzas of a popular song by James Oswald (died c. 1769), sung in the opera The Reprisal and first performed in London in 1757. The opening line contains the alternate title by which it was known--From the Man I Love--and both titles appear in period references from England and the United States. As a morris dance tune it was collected in the Ascot-under-Wychwood, Bledington, and Brackley England, areas during the latter 19th century (when most morris tunes were sought out and recorded). Ernest MacMillan identifies a tune having this title in an instrumental setting of 1759, though the melody is unrelated to the one here referenced, being clearly a version of "Wearing of the Green."

Printed sources: Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; pp. 21, 93, & 104. Mallinson (Mally's Cotswold Morris Book), vol. 2 (Bledington version), 1988; No. 21, p. 12. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 80.

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