The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3730   Message #19424
Posted By: Bruce O.
18-Jan-98 - 01:52 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Jack in/on/of the Green
Subject: RE: Jack in the Green
According to the song "Jack of the Green" in Holloway and Black's Later 'English Broadside Ballads', I, #58, to dance "Jack on the Green" was to have sexual intercourse. See also "Dance, dandirly Dan", "The Shaking of the Sheets", and "Reel of Stunpie" for same 'dance'.