The Nutting Girl
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Nutting Girl", also known as "Nutting Time" and "A-Nutting We<br> Will Go", "Jack the Jolly Ploughboy", "The Jolly Plowboy" or<br> "To Rodney We will go" is an English air or Morris dance tune in<br> 4/4 or 2/2 time and G Major. The parts are played AB, AC, AC<br> (Bampton), AABABABABA (Staton Harcourt), AABCBCB (Bampton & Fieldtown),<br> AABCBC (Barnes) or AAAABAAABCCCB (Ducklington).<br> It is an English folk song (in the Roud Folk Song Index as # 509)<br> and one of the most famous morris dance tunes, collected from the<br> villages of Bampton, Ducklington, Fieldtown (Leafield, Oxfordshire),<br> Rollo Woods (the 'C' part is a variation of the Bampton version)<br> and Stanton Harcourt (Oxfordshire); all in England's Cotswolds.<br> A version was collected by Samuel Bayard in Pennsylvania called<br> "The Tune the Old Cow Died Of".<br> It was printed in Bacon's A Handbook of Morris Dances (1974),<br> Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2 (2005),<br> JEFDSS, 2nd Series, No. 2,<br> Mallinson's Mally's Cotswold Morris Book, vol. 1 (1988) and<br> Williamson's English, Welsh, Scotch and Irish Fiddle Tunes (1976).<br> It was recorded by Ashley Hutchings on Morris On (1972) and<br> Hutchings et al Morris On (1983).<br>
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