"The Shepherd's Hey" is the name of several variations of a dance popular among Cotswold Morris teams for full teams or as a Morris jig for three men. It is probably the most well-known Morris dance melody and can be found in various forms throughout England. Bayard (1981) points out that this tune resembles the first part of his Pennsylvania-collected "Chase the Squirrel". The melody appears under the generic title "Scotch Reel" in the c. 1837-1840 MS of Shropshire musician John Moore, where it was probably employed as a country dance tune. It was collected by Dr. Kenworthy Schofield, Peter Bentley, Rollo Woods and Cecil Sharp. It was used by Gustav Holst in his Six Morris Dance Tunes, Set 2. It was printed in Ashman's The Ironbridge Hornpipe (1991), Bacon's The Morris Ring (1974), Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2 (2005), Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951) and Mallinson's Mally’s Cotswold Morris Book (1988).