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Thread #9077   Message #2860007
Posted By: MGM·Lion
09-Mar-10 - 08:47 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Skip to My Lou
Subject: RE: Origin: Skip to My Lou
Dargason or Sedany is a dance and tune published in Playford's first edition 1651, and republished many times in the past century, e.g.The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master - by Jeremy Barlow. You might find it with Google.
Yes, I suppose there is a likeness.
The tune is the one that Vaughan Williams mingles with Greensleeves, in the Fantasia on... Mo the Caller Feb 07 ~~~

That also is the tune that carries song Lovely Joan which RVW collected in Norfolk 1908 ~ Penguin Book of English Folk Songs