Bucknell Tunes

Bucknell Morris Men, around 1870 Russell Wortley said of the'photo: "So far as I know, none of the surviving original prints of the photograph is dated. The best estimate of its age that I have been able to get was from the late Robert (Bob) Rolfe whose father Alfred stands third from the left in the group. Bob told me that he reckoned his father was no more than 30 at the time and that the photo must therefore have been taken in the 1870s. According to a note in George Butterworth's 'Diary of Morris Dance Hunting' (Folk Music Journal, 1977, p. 199) the photograph was then, in 1912, said to have been taken "about 30 years ago", this makes it, so far as I am aware, the earliest extant photograph of a Cotswold morris side"
"Joe Powell (wrongly named Jim Pole in The Morris Book) is in the centre."
EDS, 1979, 41, No, and in "Russell Wortley" by John Jenner and Andrew Richards, Cambridge MM, 1980.

Sources: MB V; RD (Butterworth and Sharp MSS, TM); GF; RKS. See also articles by RW in EDS (Autumn '75 and Summer '76) and subsequent correspondence. The music was pipe and tabor.

The abc format file is at abc/Bucknell.abc. See comments on the index page about using abc files.

  1. Bonny Green, MDT
  2. The Willow Tree, RKS(MSS)
  3. The Blue-Eyed Stranger, CJS(MSS)
  4. Constant Billy, CJS(MSS)
  5. The Maid of the Mill, ALP from Powell, 1927
  6. The Queen's Delight, MDT
  7. The Old Woman Tossed Up, Butterworth (MSS) No C music noted: requires augmentation, presumably on the lines of The Queens Delight, for capers.
  8. Trunkles, Butterworth (MSS); D music from BC
  9. Saturday Night, MDT
  10. Old Black Joe, Butterworth (MSS)
  11. Room for the Cuckolds, MDT
  12. Bonnets So Blue, MDT
  13. Shepherds' Hey, ALP from Powell (1927)
  14. Shepherds' Hey (Tatman from Frank Powell, 1955)
  15. Shepherds' Hey, BC (Peter Bentley and Rollo Woods
    from Robt. Rolfe, 1951)
  16. Lads-a-Bunchum
  17. Rodney
  18. Down in the meadows
  19. Step-Back (Eli Rolfe played a tune of this name
    to Butterworth)
  20. Jockey (jig)
  21. Johnny Long Gone to the Fair (jig)