Our dances

Our dances and tunes

Little is written down about the type of dances performed by the original Mollies, so much has been invented and the dances continue to evolve. The tunes are traditional and played on hurdy gurdy, accordion, melodeon, whistle, recorder and drum with support from the percussion team on jiggle stick, tambourines and anything else at hand.

Black Dog Dance (Huntsman's Chorus)

Rope Dance (Just as the Tide was Flowing)

Big Stick (Playing on the Old Banjo)

Bold Eel Catcher (Shave the Donkey)

Birds a Building (Birds a Building)

Much Wenlock (Much Wenlock)

Speed the Plough (Speed the Plough)

Kicking up sparks (Rakes Of Mallow)

Straw Bear (Dorset four hand reel)

Hat Dance (Walter Bulwer's Polka)

Gog Magog (Winster Gallop)

The Black Dog Molly Song (sung to Sweet Betsy from Pike)

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