Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on January 20th 2007 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 4 tunebooks.
Also known as Highland Mary.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
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