THE HISTORY OF
MORRIS DANCE
In the beginning
How and where did it all start?
The above picture shows what is believed to be the earliest known picture of a small gathering of Morris Dancers. It's not sure where the picture was taken but photographic archiologists think it's the West Country UK, about 2000 bc, could even be the forefathers, or in this case mothers of my own local troupe The Tarka Morris Dancers.
You should note the drinking vessel hanging from the waist of the middle Morris person. Now believed to be an early example of the now common pewter tankard carried by all Morris Dancers whenever they,
"Go 'A' Dancing".
It should be noted that some Morris Dancers also favour the leather tankard but as far as I can tell this is just a status symbol amongst the higher rankings of each order.
Gruntfuttock Nonnington-Piddledream C 1725
Founder of the
Gurt Wangle Morris Dancers
This complete twonk may be responsible for the introduction
of the random High Street dance & quiet Sunday lunch time
pub car park dance.
The Gurt Wangle Morris Dancers annoying the feck out of locals on their High Street
For many years The fools honed their stupid dances, songs and tunes till what we find today, songs that all sound the same, same tunes and quite often the songs will contain the same lines or verses. None of the songs have any meaning to them but by using certain buzz words or phrases the stupified listner thinks he or she has never heard anything quite as good.
Words and phrases such as Hey-Nonney-Nonney, Me Deario, Skip to the loo moi darling, May day morn, and countless others are often used like subliminal advertising by these twonks to make you part with whatever change you have about your person, nothing short of bullying, in fact I would go so far as to say day light robbery by thugs dressed in costumes to hide their true identity, Oh yes THUGS. yet we as a nation revile the humble hoodie but why? for he does not carry in public an Nonney stick and neither does he get in our way whilst shopping on a Saturday morning.
The history of Morris Dance is a work in progress.
