Gathering Peascods
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
John Brand, in his Observations on the Popular Antiquities of<br> Great Britain (1849), records the custom of 'peascod wooing'<br> along with the tradition of divining love affairs from pea-pods.<br> This air was first published by Playford in the first<br> edition of The English Dancing Master of 1651 and was retained<br> in the Dancing Master through the 8th edition<br> of 1690 (then published by son Henry Playford). The tune and<br> dance were dropped from the Dancing Master in subsequent editions.<br> Antiquarian William Chappell (1859) observes that the first four<br> bars are identical with those of "All in a Garden Green" and<br> that, while the title suggests a ballad was once attached to the tune,<br> no words have ever been found. Both "Gathering Peascods" and<br> "All in a Garden Green" are derivatives (along with many other tunes)<br> of the ancient ground "Hunts Up" or "The King's Hunts Up", a melody<br> associated with Henry VIII. <br> It was also printed in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859),<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909), and Karpeles & Schofield's<br> A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951).<br> It was recorded on The English Country Dancing Master by The Telemann Society and<br> Country Capers by The New York Renaissance Band.<br>
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