"The Gallant Hussar" is an English morris dance tune in 6/8 time and G Major. As "Young Jane" it is also an Irish moderately slow air (6/8 time). The parts are played ABB, ABB, ACC, ACC, A. It is from the villages of Bledington and Longborough, Gloucestershire, in England's Cotswolds. Hussars were a dashing branch of most European armies during the Napoleonic era, and captured the public imagination with their reputation for gallantry and with their extravagant uniforms. The word hussar is from 15th century Hungary and means 'one in twenty', relating to the conscripting of one man in twenty from every village. Thomas Hardy, the Devonshire novelist, wrote a short story called "The Mellancholy Hussar of the German Legion" which appears in his collection Wessex Tales (1889). "Young Jane" is a waltz-time setting of the air. It was printed in Bacon's A Handbook of Morris Dances (1974) and Mallinson's Mally's Cotswold Morris Book, vol. 1 (1988). It was recorded by Ashley Hutchings et al on Son of Morris On (1976).