Prampushing

reel

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on January 20th 2007 by dafydd.

This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.

Also known as Highland Mary.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Consider The Source by Brian Conway
• English Fiddle Tunes by Pete Cooper
• Out West by Mick Doherty And Robert Zielinski
• Rhythms Of The Wold by Rod Stradling
• Rough Music by Eliza Carthy

X: 1
T: Prampushing
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amaj
|:A2 BA GF E2|A2 Bc d2 cd|edef edcB|A2c2E4|
A2 AB GF E2|A2 Bc d2 cd|edef edcB|A2G2 A4:|
|:ABcd e2e2|fedc d2 cd|edef edcB|A2c2 E4|
A2 AB GF E2|A2 Bc d2 cd|edef edcB|A2G2 A4:|

A slower reel from the playing of Dave Swarbrick.

# Posted on January 20th 2007 by dafydd

Highland Mary

Originally a Cotswold Morris Dance tune by the name "Highland Mary" The tunes collected from the villages of Bledington, Longborough and Oddington are very similar in their 'A' musics but not so in the 'B' musics. The village of Sherborne used a JIG by the same name for a dance called "Jockey to the Fair". The closest version of this tune, however, comes from the village of Bampton where it is the tune for a dance with a sequence in it which involves the whole side of six men moving together towards the musician (or head of the set) slightly bent towards the ground with sweeping low arm movements imitating the idea of shooing chickens. Some sides may do similar movements with the arms higher up and this has become known as 'Prampushing' . Both title of 'Prampushing' and 'Chicken Chasing' describe the DANCE and not the music.

# Posted on January 20th 2007 by hetty

Highland Mary

Here is a version in G as played at the start of an English session at the Naval Volunteer, Bristol, England. The musicians were 1 two-row melodeon, 2 concertinas, and a fiddle. More musicians arrived later.
This version in G differs only in very minor aspects from that already posted here in A.
X: 1
T: Highland Mary
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
G2AG FED2 | G2AB c2Bc | d2de dcBA | GABG D4 |
G2AG FED2 | G2AB c2Bc | d2de dcBA | G2F2 G4 :|
|: GABc d2d2 | edcB c2Bc | d2de dcBA | GABG D4 |
G2AG FED2 | G2AB c2Bc | d2de dcBA | G2F2 G4 :||

# Posted on October 23rd 2008 by Trevor Jennings

Highland Mary

I've been told, on no good authority, that "Highland Mary" was a lady very popular with soldiers on both sides of the Civil War.

# Posted on August 14th 2009 by Trevor Jennings