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Tunes from George Simpson (Sherborne)

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Source: C. Sharp manuscripts in Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Performer: Simpson, George
Place Collected: Didcot
Date collected: 1908, 1910
Collector: Sharp, Cecil

Morris tunes from Sherborne, Gloucestershire. Although Sharp visited Simpson at Upton, near Didcot, then in Berkshire, now in Oxfordshire, he had previously lived at Sherborne, and was Sharp’s informant for the Sherborne morris dances.

The musician at Sherborne was William Hooper, who played the Whittle & Dub (Pipe and Tabor).

Index to George Simpson’s Tunes

Title pdf page ABC no.
Blue Eyed Stranger 1 1
Constant Billy 5 8
Country Gardens 1 1
Cuckoo’s Nest 7 11
Go & List for a Sailor 8 14
How do You do? 8 13
Jockie to the Fair 4 5
Lads a Bunshum 6 9
Monks March 1 4
Old Woman Tossed up 6 10
Orange in Bloom 5 7
Princess Royal Jig 3 3
Sherborne Jig 4 6
Trunkles 7 12
Young Collins 2 2