The Dashing White Sergeant

polka

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on November 3rd 2006 by nicholas.

This tune has been added to 37 tunebooks.

Also known as Dashing White Sergeant.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Celtic Reels And Jigs - The Blackberry Blossom by Various Artists
• Fibb'nacci Sequence by Knot Fibb'n
• For As Many As Will by Haste To The Wedding
• King Of The Button Box by Jimmy Shand
• Rolling Home by The Foundry Bar Band
• Take To The Floor by Haste To The Wedding
• The Bluebell Polka by Jimmy Shand
• The Final Fling Part One by NE66
• Trasna Ceilidh Band by Trasna Ceilidh Band

X: 1
T: Dashing White Sergeant, The
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
F3E|:DD D/E/F/G/|AF A f/e/|dB AF|BE EF/E/|
DD D/E/F/G/|AF Af|ed cB|A A/B/ A/G/F/E/|
DD D/E/F/G/|AF Af/e/|dB AF|BE EF/E/|
DD D/E/F/G/|AF Af|ed cB|A2 AE|
A A/B/ c/B/c/d/|ec AA|B B/c/ d/c/d/e/|fB BB|
cA dA|eA fA|gf ed|cB AA/G/|Fd d/c/d/e/|
dA AA|Be e/d/e/f/|eB B B|Ad d/c/d/e/|
fd d/c/d/e/|f2 a2|1dc/B/ A/G/F/E/:|2 d4 ||

The Dashing White Sergeant

I'm surprised this tune hasn't gone in already, unless it's done so under another name.

# Posted on November 3rd 2006 by nicholas

The Dashing White Sergeant

From the Athole Collection in F, via the fiddler's companion website:

X:1
T:Dashing White Sergeant
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Country Dances
B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:F
A/G/|:FF/G/ F/G/A/B/|c/B/c/d/ ca/g/|~fdcA|dG G/B/A/G/|FF/G/ F/G/A/B/|
c/B/c/d/ ca|gfed|1 cc/d/ c/B/A/G/:|2 c2z||C|cc/d/ c/d/e/f/|g/a/g/e/ c>e|
dd/e/ d/e/f/g/|a/b/a/f/ dd/d/|ec/c/ fc/c/|gc/c/ ag/a/|bagf|ed c/B/A/G/|
F>f f/e/f/g/|fcc>f|dg g/f/g/a/|gdd>~f|c>f f/e/f/g/|az c’>e|fe/d/ c/B/A/G/||

# Posted on November 4th 2006 by gravelwalks

I like the version by The Kipper Family,The Dashing White Privates.

# Posted on November 4th 2006 by dafydd

The Dashing W S

This was a great favourite of my mother's (Rose O'Connor) and I believe ti was a popular tune in the dance halls where she played in the 50's.
I think there was a specific dance to go with it. Alas and alack all lost now.

Peter

# Posted on November 5th 2006 by Peter O'Connor

Peter - The Dashing White Sergeant is alive and well and danced at Scottish Ceilidhs the world over. It's part of the Scottish Country Dance repertoire and dates back considerably further than the 1950s (18th or 19th Century).

# Posted on November 5th 2006 by granama

In fact, I danced the DWS with my wife and somebody else's wife making the required threesome at a ceilidh just a couple of weeks ago. By eck! But when you're 'piggy in the middle' you get a right good work out! Ooh me 'eart (Nurse! where's my pills?)

# Posted on November 10th 2006 by JonB