James Locke, one time dancer with Badby Morris (Ref: PE 26)
Badby Tunes
Sources: MB V;
Butterworth MSS (RD). See also "The Badby Morris Tradition (Northamptonshire)", Reconstruction of the
tradition by Moulton Morris Men. "The Morris Dancer", 1997, 3(4), 106.
Photo: James Locke, one time dancer with Badby Morris Ring Archive Ref: PE 26
Photo: James Locke, one time dancer with Badby Morris Ring Archive Ref: PE 26
The abc format file is at abc/Badby.abc. See comments on the index page about using abc files.
- Beaux of London City (MDT)
- Shepherds' Hey (MDT)
- Old Black Joe (MDT)
- Old Black Joe 2, (RD, Col. by John Black, OUMM)
Additional Dance Tunes - First Morris
- Second Morris
- Saturday Night
- Broad Cupid
- Trunkles
- Bobbing Joe
- Balance the Straw (as Fieldtown)
- Cuckoos nest
- Flowers of Edinburgh
The Badby Tradition
"Badby is a village in Northamptonshire, about three miles south of Daventry. The Morris team broke up about forty years ago; there is now only one survivor, Mr Ephraim Cox, aged seventy-four, and it is from him that our knowledge of the three following dances has been derived. Mr Cox gave us the names of several more dances which used to be regularly performed; unfortunately, however, he was unable to remember their tunes, and therefore could not show the movements: for no traditional Morris-man can dance a single step until he hears, actually or in imagination, the particular tune he wants; nor, as a rule, is it of any avail to whistle him a version – even of a well-known air – other than the one to which he has been accustomed.
The Badby dancers used to wear white pleated shirts, with epaulettes and rosettes attached, two white silk scarves crossed, 'Scotch' cap with ribands, and white trousers. The sticks they used were rather larger and stouter than usual, about 25 inches in length and a full inch in diameter
The music was supplied by a fiddler" The Morris Book, Part V, p36, C.J.Sharp and G. Butterworth, Novello and Co., 1913
"Badby is a village in Northamptonshire, about three miles south of Daventry. The Morris team broke up about forty years ago; there is now only one survivor, Mr Ephraim Cox, aged seventy-four, and it is from him that our knowledge of the three following dances has been derived. Mr Cox gave us the names of several more dances which used to be regularly performed; unfortunately, however, he was unable to remember their tunes, and therefore could not show the movements: for no traditional Morris-man can dance a single step until he hears, actually or in imagination, the particular tune he wants; nor, as a rule, is it of any avail to whistle him a version – even of a well-known air – other than the one to which he has been accustomed.
The Badby dancers used to wear white pleated shirts, with epaulettes and rosettes attached, two white silk scarves crossed, 'Scotch' cap with ribands, and white trousers. The sticks they used were rather larger and stouter than usual, about 25 inches in length and a full inch in diameter
The music was supplied by a fiddler" The Morris Book, Part V, p36, C.J.Sharp and G. Butterworth, Novello and Co., 1913