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The Old Woman Tossed up in a Blanket (Bledington)

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Source: RK Schofield's mss at VWML Manuscript Music Book no.23 p 2
Performer: Hathaway, George
Place Collected: Bledington
Date collected: 1937?

The once well-known nursery rhyme was one of several tunes used for the Bledington sidestep dance. The first 4 bars of the B music (second half of the tune) is taken up with a long sidestep, followed by a half hey [half figure of 8],