Annotation:Bonny Green Garters (2)

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BONNY GREEN GARTERS [2]. English, Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This version is from the village of Bampton, Oxfordshire, in England's Cotswolds and was used as a morris dancers' processional off the site of the dance at the end of a performance. It is commonly played preceding a tune from the village of Headington.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 50. Mallinson (Mally's Cotswold Morris Book, vol. 2), 1988; No. 59, p. 28.

Recorded sources: Veteran VT111, Francis Shergold - "Greeny Up" (1988. Recorded from Bampton morris musicians).

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