Annotation:Old Black Joe (2)

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X:1 T:Old Black Joe [2], Bucknell M:6/8 L:1/8 A:Bucknell P:A(AB)4 K:G P:A |:DGG GFG|ABA A2A|Gdd dcB|ABA cBA|G3 E3|AGF G3:| P:B cBc d2d|ece d3 |cBc d2d|ece d3 |dcB BAG| ABA A2A|Gdd dcB|ABA cBA|G3 E3|AGF G3|



OLD BLACK JOE [2]. AKA and see "Black Joke (1) (The)". English, Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB, x4. Collected from the village of Bucknell, Oxfordshire, in England's Cotswolds. The tune is perhaps the most faithful to the original "Black Joke" than other Cotswold morris traditions. See note for "Black Joke" for more.


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Printed sources : - Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 121. Mallinson (Mally's Cotswold Morris Book vol. 2), 1988; No. 11, p. 7.

Recorded sources : - Topic TSCD458, John Kirkpatrick - "Plain Capers" (1976).




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