Flee as a Bird
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Flee As a Bird" also known as "Free Like a Bird" is a Lancashire, England clog in<br> G Major.<br> The parts are played AA'BB' (Williamson), AABBCCDD (Ryan/Cole) or AA'BBCCDD (Kerr).<br> It is a Lancashire clog dance tune, which Williamson (1976) states is played slower<br> than a hornpipe in solid 4/4 time. He writes:<br> "Ever since there have been coal mines in Lancashire, clogs have been the miner's<br> footwear. Thick wooden soles, steelcapped toes, laced leather uppers. Clogs come in<br> women's and children's sizes. You can still buy them in the street markets of<br> Lancaster. There's a well-known Lancashire poem entitled 'Clogs'...Clog dancing is<br> performed by male teams and is still a popular sport in Lancashire...<br> This widely known and intricate tune probably dates from the nineteenth century"<br> This is not the same tune as that used for the hymn "Flee as a Bird to your mountain".<br> A shortened version of the melody was printed by O'Neill in Music of Ireland (1903). <br> It was printed in Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940), Kerr's Merry Melodies vol. 2,<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) and Williamson's English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish<br> Fiddle Tunes (1976).<br>
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