Annotation:Hey Diddle Dis
X:1 T:Hey Diddle Dis L:1/8 M:6/8 S:Bacon K:G g>fg a>gf|g>fe d>ef|g>fg e>dc|B2A G3:| ||A>Bc B>AG|A>Bc d>ef|g>fg a>gf|g3g3||
HEY DIDDLE DIS. AKA and see - "Bidford Town Morris," "Bonnie Green Garters (3)." English, Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major (Bacon, Mallinson): D Major (Bacon-Longborough). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Bacon, Mallinson): AABB (Bacon-Longborough). A morris dance processional from the villages of Bledington and Longborough, Gloucestershire, in England's Cotswolds. Collector Cecil Sharp bicycled six miles one pouring wet day from a station to interview "Old Harry" Taylor of Longborough, seventy years of age, who worked as a farmhand in one of the highest parts of the Cotswolds. There, under the shelter of a haystack, using wisps of hay in lieu of the orthodox handkerchiefs, Sharp and Taylor danced a ‘Pas de Deux’, with Taylor whistling the tunes, which Sharp made notes of and afterwards pieced together. The first dance gone through was "Constant Billy", then "Country Gardens" and onto "Hey Diddle Dis".
Hey Diddle Dis, my backside you may kiss,
And away goes the Longborough Morris.
