Bobby Shaftoe
The Robber Bird track 11
Not the tune usually associated with this title; this one is used to accompany the long-sword dance at Sleights in North Yorkshire, a dance traditionally performed in the week after Plough Monday. The tune is printed in Cecil Sharp's The Sword Dances of Northern England, but Mat and I think we just absorbed it from playing in sessions - or possibly unconsciously from listening to John Kirkpatrick's Wassail CD.
Followed by York Winter Assemblies