Annotation:Dance to Your Daddy

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 DANCE TO YOUR DADDIE. AKA and see "Hudson Barn (1)." Scottish, Hornpipe (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The ditty is set to a triple time metre, the old hornpipe form. ''Dance tae y'r daddie, My bonnie laddie, ''Dance tae y'r daddie, My bonnie lamb! And ye'll get a fishie, In a wee wee dishie, And ye'll get a fishie, When the boat comes hame. It is familiar to many as a nursery rhyme. A minor key version was collected in Berkshire by Cecil Sharp. The alternate title "Hudson Barn" comes from a modern country dance by Jacqueline Schwab and Charles Hammond, written in 1974 for Pam Kelly and Jonathan Bosworth on their wedding.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources: Fellside FECD 167, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan - "Between the Dark and Light" (2001).

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