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Jockey to the Fair, Bledington

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Source: RK Schofield's ms KWS 2/5 in VWML
Performer: Hathaway, George
Place Collected: Bledington
Date collected: Aug 1937

This manuscript is rather messy, with a lot of notes half rubbed out. When I went through the second time, I eliminated the rubbings out.

The tune divides into three parts: A music, bars 1 to 8; B music, bars 9 to 22; C music bars 23 to 34,

14 bars of B music occur in several versions of Jockey, corresponding to 14 bars in the equivalent part of the song. See Archer Goode’s version, which differs little from the first surviving song version published in 1772. The rest in bar 28 is strange. In the ms it is a rather thick vertical black line.

For a version to play, I suggest Lionel Bacon, A Handbook of Morris Dances, p 94 or https://themorrisring.org/tradition/bledington (scroll down to find the tunes in pdf, abc, and midi. The Morris Ring have access to information, from Travelling Morrice, in the archives of Cambridge Morris.