My friend and I are working on a tune from one of Natalie Mcmaster's discs called "Shakin' o' the Pocky". I did a search on the digitrad archive, (and, by the way, what a great resource this site is; you're doing a super job!), and I found two songs, both titled "Shaking of the Sheets" and /or "Dance of Death". Are these all the same tune? Is the "Pocky" a reference to the pox? i realize that the Dance of Death was a common image used in medieval times in reference to the black death, but if anyone knows for sure about the Pocky thing I'd love to hear about it. The tune Mcmaster plays I assume is traditional Cape Breton tunes, but it could easily have been added to the Cape Breton repetoire over the last couple of hundred years,right? Cheers, Bill