Shepherds Hey Adderbury

Moulton Morris Men at London Covent Garden Market St Georges Day Festival, 19 Apr 2008, dancing Shepherds Hey from Adderbury in Oxfordshire. No sticks & no hankies involved in this dance and we guarentee no parts of their arms will part from their bodies during the course of the dance

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• Moulton
• Morris
• Adderbury
• Folk
• Dance
• Fiddle
• Melodeon
• Covent
• Garden
• George

[FiddlerNick]

I'd never listened to it before, but had a little hark at the prog on Radio4 Extra. The theme tune is basically the same one as we played in our video (ie the version collected in Adderbury , Oxon), albeit speeded up a bit from morris dance pace. A very similar version was used in many Cotswold villages, with an odd note changed here or there to suit a fiddle or a whistle.

They're all derived, I think , from Baa Baa Black Sheep (or maybe it was the other way round?).

[mrsshekle1974]

Hi. I really like this video and would like to show it to a class of Year 3 children so we can practise it. I can't get round the firewall at school to show it. Is it possible to download it? Or could you send me it via E-mail please? Ta Mrs Shek.

[FiddlerNick]

@mrsshekle1974

Hi! You should be able to download it to your PC while working in Windows Explorer, through the basic version of Real Player which is available free as a download if you haven't got it. Just right click the image while the video is playing and you get a drop down menu, the last option being "download to Real Player". It then goes to your RealPlayer Library and you should be able to lift the file from there onto a USP stick or similar. Message me if stuck!

Nick

[kishlogan]

This is splendid . Do you know what version (clearly a Morris one) of 'Shepherd's Hey' is used as the sig tune of the BBC Radio Four version of 'Agatha Raisin'?

[Puzzoozoo]

Happy Saint Georges day.