ROOM FOR THE CUCKOLDS. AKA - "Room for Cuckolds." English, Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time). A Major (Bacon): G Major (Mallinson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (x3), AA. "Room for Cuckolds" was the indicated tune for a song in the ballad opera The Footman (1732). The morris dance version was collected from the village of Bucknell, Oxfordshire, in England's Cotswolds.
Source for notated version: -
Printed sources : - Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 121. Mallinson (Mally’s Cotswold Morris Book, vol. 2), 1988; No.59, p. 28.
Recorded sources: - EMI/Harvest 7243 8 29861 2 6, Ashley Hutchings et al - "Son of Morris On" (1976/1994).
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