I’ve been around morris dancers today, and that steady 6/8 rhythm just gets under your skin. So here’s an interesting version of ‘Lumps of Plum Pudding’ from the playing of Thomas Danley of Sevenhampton in Gloucestershire. This is one of five morris tunes and one country dance tune which Cecil Sharp collected from Mr Danley on 30th August 1909.

Sharp’s transcription shows some of the Cs as C#? I’ve decided to play all of these as C sharps just because it makes it less like the usual version of this tune (although they’re F sharps in my version, because I’m playing the tune in C on a C/G anglo).