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Title: Bonny Green Garters - now with correct link!!
Post by: Daddy Long Les on May 19, 2018, 08:34:10 AM
https://youtu.be/UH7UHl2zMJM

My version of the morris farewell dance tunes as we play them in Chelmsford Morris.
 :M

Now with the correct link!
Title: Re: Bonny Green Garters
Post by: Lester on May 19, 2018, 08:42:05 AM
<morris pedant>
BGG is not THE morris farewell dance, it is one of a number of dance offs. Other examples are the Headington Morris Off and Bledington, Hey Diddle Diss.
</morris pedant>
Title: Re: Bonny Green Garters
Post by: Daddy Long Les on May 19, 2018, 08:59:57 AM
<morris pedant>
BGG is not THE morris farewell dance, it is one of a number of dance offs. Other examples are the Headington Morris Off and Bledington, Hey Diddle Diss.
</morris pedant>
I don’t believe I was inferring that this was the only one. It’s merely the one that we do. Thanks for the heads up.  I’ll check those others out.

Les
Title: Re: Bonny Green Garters
Post by: Lester on May 19, 2018, 09:09:49 AM
<morris pedant>
BGG is not THE morris farewell dance, it is one of a number of dance offs. Other examples are the Headington Morris Off and Bledington, Hey Diddle Diss.
</morris pedant>
I don’t believe I was inferring that this was the only one. It’s merely the one that we do. Thanks for the heads up.  I’ll check those others out.

Les

You may be surprised by the tune for the Headington Morris Off

X: 1
T:Morris Off, Headington
Q:120
M:4/4
L:1/4
K:GMix
e/f/|gg ga|g3  f|ec cd|B2 Gz|ec cd|ec cd|ec cd|B2 G||
Title: Re: Bonny Green Garters
Post by: Daddy Long Les on May 19, 2018, 09:29:53 AM
<morris pedant>
BGG is not THE morris farewell dance, it is one of a number of dance offs. Other examples are the Headington Morris Off and Bledington, Hey Diddle Diss.
</morris pedant>
I don’t believe I was inferring that this was the only one. It’s merely the one that we do. Thanks for the heads up.  I’ll check those others out.

Les

You may be surprised by the tune for the Headington Morris Off

X: 1
T:Morris Off, Headington
Q:120
M:4/4
L:1/4
K:GMix
e/f/|gg ga|g3  f|ec cd|B2 Gz|ec cd|ec cd|ec cd|B2 G||
Yes, that was a surprise. I couldn’t find a video of it though.
Title: Re: Bonny Green Garters
Post by: Helena Handcart on May 19, 2018, 09:40:23 AM
<morris pedant>
BGG is not THE morris farewell dance, it is one of a number of dance offs. Other examples are the Headington Morris Off and Bledington, Hey Diddle Diss.
</morris pedant>

I had a pound for every time I've heard it introduced as 'the morris man's traditional farewell' well at least my inner folk pedant could buy itself a round of drinks with which to console itself.

Also known (by me, mainly) as 'Bonny Green Carnage' after the chaos that ensues when a) different teams attempt to  this slightly differently as a massed dance when drink has been taken or b) members of the public are invited to join in 'the traditional morris man's farewell' (sic), armed with hankies and given only the flimsiest, usually confusing instructions before proceeding to crash into each other.

I much prefer the Longborough Hey Diddle Diss as a morris off although in Taylor's we use it as a processional mostly.

X: 1
T:Hey Diddle Dis, Longborough 1
Q:120
M:6/8
L:1/8
A:Longborough
P:A(AB)6
K:D
P:A
|:dcd  e2c|dcB  ABc|dcd BAG|F2E D3:|
P:B
|:E>GE FED|G>AG FED|B2A Bcd|F2E D3:|

and

X: 1
T:Hey Diddle Dis, Longborough 2
Q:120
M:6/8
L:1/8
A:Longborough
P:A(AB)6
K:D
P:A
|:dcd e2c|dcB ABc|dcd BAG|F2E D3:|
P:B
|:EFG A2D|EFG ABc|dcd BAG|F2E D3:|

Title: Re: Bonny Green Garters
Post by: Chris Rayner on May 19, 2018, 03:05:08 PM
I know little of the various tunes and occasions in question, but I do know the difference between inference and implication.  I think Lester inferred something which Daddylongless did not intend to imply.  In fact I see no implication of a general statement here.  He quite clearly limited it to goings on in Chelmsford.  Having lived and worked in Chelmsford for two years during which my two elder children were born, I can authoritatively state that much of what goes on there is far from the norm.
Title: Re: Bonny Green Garters
Post by: Dick Rees on May 19, 2018, 04:58:32 PM
  Having lived and worked in Chelmsford for two years during which my two elder children were born, I can authoritatively state that much of what goes on there is far from the norm.

This seems a rather delicate personal admission for a public forum...
Title: Re: Bonny Green Garters
Post by: Chris Rayner on May 19, 2018, 05:17:37 PM
I worked as a doctor there.  I am bound by the omertà of my profession.
Title: Re: Bonny Green Garters
Post by: Dick Rees on May 19, 2018, 05:38:07 PM
I worked as a doctor there.  I am bound by the omertà of my profession.

Primum non nocere.
Title: Re: Bonny Green Garters
Post by: Chris Rayner on May 19, 2018, 10:41:13 PM
I worked as a doctor there.  I am bound by the omertà of my profession.

Primum non nocere.

That too, also.  Deinde, ne dicam.
Title: Re: Bonny Green Garters
Post by: Daddy Long Les on May 20, 2018, 04:29:22 PM
<morris pedant>
BGG is not THE morris farewell dance, it is one of a number of dance offs. Other examples are the Headington Morris Off and Bledington, Hey Diddle Diss.
</morris pedant>

I had a pound for every time I've heard it introduced as 'the morris man's traditional farewell' well at least my inner folk pedant could buy itself a round of drinks with which to console itself.

Also known (by me, mainly) as 'Bonny Green Carnage' after the chaos that ensues when a) different teams attempt to  this slightly differently as a massed dance when drink has been taken or b) members of the public are invited to join in 'the traditional morris man's farewell' (sic), armed with hankies and given only the flimsiest, usually confusing instructions before proceeding to crash into each other.

I much prefer the Longborough Hey Diddle Diss as a morris off although in Taylor's we use it as a processional mostly.

X: 1
T:Hey Diddle Dis, Longborough 1
Q:120
M:6/8
L:1/8
A:Longborough
P:A(AB)6
K:D
P:A
|:dcd  e2c|dcB  ABc|dcd BAG|F2E D3:|
P:B
|:E>GE FED|G>AG FED|B2A Bcd|F2E D3:|

and

X: 1
T:Hey Diddle Dis, Longborough 2
Q:120
M:6/8
L:1/8
A:Longborough
P:A(AB)6
K:D
P:A
|:dcd e2c|dcB ABc|dcd BAG|F2E D3:|
P:B
|:EFG A2D|EFG ABc|dcd BAG|F2E D3:|

Yes that's a good tune with quite a few examples on YouTube.  Thanks Helena! (:)
Title: Re: Bonny Green Garters
Post by: Daddy Long Les on May 21, 2018, 06:02:25 PM
Sorry - I just realised I posted the wrong link to this tune.  Now corrected.

It should have been this one:-

https://youtu.be/UH7UHl2zMJM

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