As a morris dancer myself I am reading through these comments and smiling at the respect shown for these dancers because usually we get shown a lot of disrespect
Odd to hear you get disrespected as a Pratchett reader can't help but think in the back of my mind you lads keep the world turning winter to spring, funny that but even In this modern world some traditions just seem to give us balance and some of the old folklore becomes more comfortable and comforting then all the scientific jargon they can spit, well done on you lads for keeping traditions that bring joy alive you deserve the respect
I think it's really important to keep this tradition going! No matter how much times change. Speaking as the child of an immigrant, I think it's a good thing for us to see, respect and appreciate the culture of the land we were born in.
The uk is so depressing nowadays because people find any way to express happiness like this to be childish or silly, i think it is ok to not be serious all the time.
I remember seeing Morris dancers quite alot when i was a kid. my mum always took me to weekend fairs and such in the 80's and they were usually around. It felt totally normal to me to watch this (now) weird spectacle. I love old culture of every country and Morris dancers are definitely important to England and us English. well done lads.
thankyou it's so nice seeing that people from across the planet actually realise that we have culture like this but sadly industrialisation and colonialism has killed a lot of it or at least people's appreciation for this
Sometimes when I’m getting undressed at nighttime and taking my socks off, i morris dance down the hallway twirling my socks around and skipping towards the laundry room. I’ll most likely be naked so there is bonus flappage for anyone that may be enjoying the festivities.
So true! I wish we were taught more about our traditional culture, and i wish less Brits would take the piss out of it. Its just a lot of fun :). I'm actually making my own Morris dancing dress because I think they're really pretty!
I think it’s great, even more so as it was taken from the Moors in Muslim Spain. Morris dancing is from Moorish dancing and even though there’s no exact evidence. The Moriscos who were evading persecution along with Jews in Muslim Spain developed songs and dances I.e flamenco. It is a quintessentially male dance that you will find in certain Arab cultures but I think with all great things in cultures some are imported and given their own twist.
@@livw3090: I’m a Chinese and recently I live in Australia. I did a Morris Dance performance (with traditional Morris music) with 5 of my working colleagues in China in 2014, including one of my English colleague who is from London. The performance was for our Chinese New Year party. Each of us held a stick to dance. The England colleague said he never heard of Morris Dance and did not know how to dance. However, I searched & learnt by internet. Then I taught my England colleague how to do a Morris dance. Out performance may not very decent, but we had a lot of fun and the audience enjoyed it. It was an unique experience. 💃
I find it really sad that we don't appreciate/ respect the Folk dancing of our own country. I can't think of another country that would feel the same way...
So which national folk dances do you admire? New Zealand Maori Hakas? A bunch of half naked "warriors" stomping around in a line trying to look tough? Russian Cossacks, looking equally ridiculous kicking their legs up in the air? Or African folk dancing? People wearing equally ridiculous costumes dancing around to a drum beat. But I bet you think they're cool, because they're black and primitive looking.
This is real Morris dancing, with the correct steps, movements, music and outfits. Please continue to keep English culture and identity alive in the face of attempts to extinguish it.
I'm in the United States. The music is pleasant and the dance is straight of of youre history there as far as I can tell. I enjoyed and was enlightened by the video. Thank-you
Now THAT is the Morris dancing I grew up with in Berkshire in the 60s. The Fool in smock with bladder on a stick, the Hobby Horse, and all the traditions observed.
Englishman here. I'm not going to comment on the dancing but I do love the music. Now I know why I love folk music, thanks to the Morris dancing that I heard in the 70's and 80's as a boy. That and a newly discovered love of sea shanties music. Ace.
So there's this bus load of blind people driving along and the bus driver starts getting tired. He says to the blind people, "I'm pretty knackered; I'm stopping at the next pub for a bite to eat and a drink, what are you guys going to do?" One of them replies, "no worries, we'll have a little game of football" "Football?!" The driver cries, "but you're all blind!" The blind guy says, "no, it's simple; we strap bells to the ball and then we can hear where it goes" With that, the bus driver pulls into a pub, has a bite to eat and a drink. When he comes out, there are paramedics and ambulances everywhere. Bus driver says, "what's been going on here then??" Paramedic turns around and shouts, "never would have guessed!! A bus load of blind people kicked the sh*t out of a Morris dancer!!!!"
My mate fat fingers - a lump of a man who could fight for fun - served in the paras in the Falklands He emigrated to NZ and when at sporting events Kiwis would be going on about the Haka him and his mate Goose another proper lad they would morris dance for the aggressive kiwis and take the edge off it all 🙏🏼 Morris dancing is ace !😊
Remember watching Morris Dancers at fairs when we lived in England during my childhood. Loved them. Still think them a great entertainment, not at all silly as some have commented here, and therefore a lovely tradition I hope will continue for generations.
@@DerEchteBold I have. Reminders me of the traditional Carnival costumes around Garmisch-Partenkirchen with the bells around the legs, wips etc. It has a similar style, sound and it's kind of martial and sliiightly creepy.
@@phangirlable Well, I don't know, if you want to see a similarity there, most European folk dances must be seen as similar. The looks of this is quite a bit different from the Alpine traditions.
My youngest daughter had been carrying around a little what’s on in our area book and noticed she had a fixation with the cover which has a picture of morris dancers on it, I told her what you guys are called and that you dance, she loves all kinds of dancing and music she’s very eclectic I asked if she wanted to see the dance and she got very excited so I took that as a big yes 😂 you guys were the first video and at first she kept glancing at the picture to you and back again but the next three back to back replays she was focused solely on you guys! She squealed with joy and you guys get a standing ovation or round of applause from start to finish now 😂 We watched 4 times before she went to bed I asked her if she would Iike me to get some bells for my legs and she definitely approved My daughter is 11yrs old, globally delayed, non verbal, on the autism spectrum and has a supersonically rare genetic disorder. You brightened up our rainy weekend!… I think you have just found your number one fan! If you could see the joy she radiated through watching you it’d give a big one of these 🖕🏻 to everyone that takes the piss!…. People that do that usually aren’t confident enough to do what you do, if you love something anyone that can’t respect that probably want to try certain things but don’t because they don’t want people acting like they do towards themselves, what a dull existence! People that ridicule your loves and likes aren’t the kind of people you want around you anyway Thank you ♥️
Dance, dance wherever you maybe as i am the lord of the dance said he, and i'll meet you all wherever you maybe as i am the lord of the dance said he...
I grew up in Abingdon and remember this as a one of memories as child in the late 70s and till this day i love seeing this every year i even get to share a pint with them in many of the local pubs awesome tradition long may it continue
Imagine my shock while Romania has an old traditional dance almost the same in costumes and style. The music has a different rhythm, check my answer from a few days ago!
As a kid in infants, we practiced maypole every Wednesday afternoon ready for mayday celebrations , another tradition wiped from the curriculum and english culture to please the snowflakes...
@@@serbmihail4026 : That was a bit more challenging - more acrobatic than Morris Dancing, the second dance reminded me of Celtic folk dancing. Are the dances done there for the same reasons? Great video, I enjoyed seeing it - thanks.
I agree- I LOVE Morris dancers! I saw a Morris show in Liverpool on 18th May (2019)- it was great to see so many groups with younger Morris dancers. Long may Morris continue!
So I was just watching a video of a haka dance at a wedding. An English bloke said the NZ haka is matched the English Morris dance which has brought me here. I worry my next breathe won’t come as the laughter is now uncontrollable.
+Bre Strum It's a fairly common sight in England. This is part of a tradition dating back at least 400 years but it had died out in many areas until the 1970s when there was a huge revival. The English are generally very proud of being English, but that doesn't mean we have to take ourselves very seriously and Morris dancers generally don't. Most Morris dancing involves a lot of beer and general arsing about. We have a lot of entertaining (and often silly) folk traditions in England. If you've never been here, come and visit. You'd enjoy it.
Bre Strum You're young and you have plenty of time. If you are at all interested in history, you should visit. The history of England is evident everywhere you look. The town I live in is very pretty but only about 150 years old, which is just a baby by English standards but I can walk up to the moor and see stones carved with cup and ring marks 4000 years ago and they are all over the place. I love to stand on the moor and look across the dale thinking that people have been standing exactly where I am standing looking across the river for thousands of years. I love feeling that connection with the past.
I live in France and we have an expat Morris dancing side. My whole family does it (mum, bro(18), me (15) and my dads the mascot(walks around wearing a cape and a giant papier mâché fish on his head(symbol of where we live))
Love the bloke doing it in his sunnies but also taking it super seriously.... seriously though, it is actually pretty cool to see this and I hope I get to see this in person one day.
The music is similar to Swedish folk dance music in many ways - played on fiddle and accordion, major scale sounds, the melodic figures used in the turnarounds before going back to the one chord, etc.
The point of the haka is to recount your past deeds in battle. The point of the Morris dance is to have a good time. In the past Morris dancers with their faces blackened so they would not be recognized by the authorities would dance and sing songs criticizing the goverment and the poor living conditions of the British masses.
Cleese, another smartarse, is now laughing on the other side of his mocking face: John Cleese London No Longer English ruclips.net/video/WJheODYpuEI/видео.html
Lovely. It's such a shame that it's a dieing tradition. We should be proud of it just like they r proud in New Zealand of the Haka. They should play this in every game & at primary & high schools so they wouldn't be embarrassed of it. Each country has a traditional dance that they r proud of & we seem to b embarrassed. But happy to show off one back side & boobs very English
Why do Morris Dancers wear bells when they dance? So they can annoy blind people also. My dad just told me that joke, so I had to look up what he was talking about. But I think this is wonderful! A+ 100%!
...and that's how line-dancing started. (I actually enjoy watching Morris since it was explained on a folk music cruise on the MV Balmoral out of Avonmouth in the 1970s.)
While I don’t mind all the jokes, some people are just here to be disrespectful calling English culture bland and shit. If your one of those people please keep your views to yourself since a lot of people here (especially older people) come to enjoy their traditions and have a laugh every now and then
Yeah its kind of sad. Taking part in traditions meant to be fun and inclusive. It sucks how much people, especially other brits, take the piss out of it
I arrived to this vídeo because I have just read that this dance is influenced by "Moros y Cristianos" festivity, wich is tipical from some Spanish towns.
In South India, we people wear the same thing and dance for temple fests. Those things we wear would weigh about a total of 8 to 10 kilograms. I encountered the same in this video. I would paste a link here, how both the dances are similar to each other
lyrics... Ol’ mother Harvey Old Geroge Hunt Went to Nuneham in a Punt Lost the pole and away they went and they never got to Numeham.. Based on an old tale about those two who were canoodling by the river
Loving these comments on here right now- references to Red Dwarf, John Cleese and Terry Pratchett! :D Yay! I'm a TP fan too! I only came on here to research for my short story lol.
AlnessW “old mother Harvey, Old George Hunt went to Numeham in a punt, lost the pole and away they went, and they never got to Numeham” Based on a real tale about those two persons caught canoodling by the river
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You foreigners laugh, but this is the only tried and tested way to get an English lady in the mood for conjugal activities.
Happy conjugation then my good sir
Aye
Hahaha 😂
lmao
@@mohamedaseem47 In American the men just show their financial report. hahaha
This is authentic Morris dancing and music. Thanks for keeping traditional English culture alive.
As a morris dancer myself I am reading through these comments and smiling at the respect shown for these dancers because usually we get shown a lot of disrespect
Wonderful culture....keep your tradition alive...respect from a Pacific Islander
Odd to hear you get disrespected as a Pratchett reader can't help but think in the back of my mind you lads keep the world turning winter to spring, funny that but even In this modern world some traditions just seem to give us balance and some of the old folklore becomes more comfortable and comforting then all the scientific jargon they can spit, well done on you lads for keeping traditions that bring joy alive you deserve the respect
I’m so sorry to hear that! It’s their problem. For heavens sake, dance your heart out dear man.
U deserve it, your dancing is gay you little didicoy
I want to learn how to do it!
I think it's really important to keep this tradition going! No matter how much times change. Speaking as the child of an immigrant, I think it's a good thing for us to see, respect and appreciate the culture of the land we were born in.
Amen!
The uk is so depressing nowadays because people find any way to express happiness like this to be childish or silly, i think it is ok to not be serious all the time.
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@@anaisbarrosodgh5790 ???
Maybe this is just cringe
@@Kampbell300 no
@@Kampbell300 if folk dancing is cringe to you then that’s just sad
I remember seeing Morris dancers quite alot when i was a kid. my mum always took me to weekend fairs and such in the 80's and they were usually around. It felt totally normal to me to watch this (now) weird spectacle. I love old culture of every country and Morris dancers are definitely important to England and us English. well done lads.
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I don't care you goon
@@elvischrist8826 who asked you, prick. You’re name is a joke and your comment is too. 🤣
@@northernlad2004 you love talking to me,stop,people will talk
Why do you consider it any more weird than Scottish dancing or Irish step dancing?
Beautiful, keep alive your history.
Blessings from Mexico.
Thank you
I am an Arab from Yemen I love the English people 🏴❤️🇾🇪
thankyou it's so nice seeing that people from across the planet actually realise that we have culture like this but sadly industrialisation and colonialism has killed a lot of it or at least people's appreciation for this
Sometimes when I’m getting undressed at nighttime and taking my socks off, i morris dance down the hallway twirling my socks around and skipping towards the laundry room. I’ll most likely be naked so there is bonus flappage for anyone that may be enjoying the festivities.
I sincerely wish that more men felt cool enough to express themselves this way.
😆🤣😔
People need to respect Morris Dancing more. I've grown up in England, and for 15 years, I didn't even know this was a thing!
So true! I wish we were taught more about our traditional culture, and i wish less Brits would take the piss out of it. Its just a lot of fun :). I'm actually making my own Morris dancing dress because I think they're really pretty!
@@livw3090 That's great!
I think it’s great, even more so as it was taken from the Moors in Muslim Spain. Morris dancing is from Moorish dancing and even though there’s no exact evidence. The Moriscos who were evading persecution along with Jews in Muslim Spain developed songs and dances I.e flamenco. It is a quintessentially male dance that you will find in certain Arab cultures but I think with all great things in cultures some are imported and given their own twist.
@@DivineUbiquity thankyou brother, we wuz kangz and "english"
@@livw3090: I’m a Chinese and recently I live in Australia. I did a Morris Dance performance (with traditional Morris music) with 5 of my working colleagues in China in 2014, including one of my English colleague who is from London. The performance was for our Chinese New Year party. Each of us held a stick to dance. The England colleague said he never heard of Morris Dance and did not know how to dance. However, I searched & learnt by internet. Then I taught my England colleague how to do a Morris dance. Out performance may not very decent, but we had a lot of fun and the audience enjoyed it. It was an unique experience. 💃
I find it really sad that we don't appreciate/ respect the Folk dancing of our own country. I can't think of another country that would feel the same way...
So which national folk dances do you admire? New Zealand Maori Hakas? A bunch of half naked "warriors" stomping around in a line trying to look tough? Russian Cossacks, looking equally ridiculous kicking their legs up in the air? Or African folk dancing? People wearing equally ridiculous costumes dancing around to a drum beat. But I bet you think they're cool, because they're black and primitive looking.
Don't like our folk dancing? Go back to Africa and sort your economy out instead of dancing all the time.
Cool story Bro. If you're Chinese/ Indian/ Middle Eastern, I can't say your folk dancing is particularly cool or inspiring either...
Go troll somewhere else. You were the one making this into a race issue...
Thanks Sir Pratchett. Would have never discover this piece of english culture without you.
I just finished reading the Wintersmith and had to come see what a Morris dance looked like!
I love our beautiful English culture 🏴
Wow the tradition must be protected at all cost😲
Greets from Mexico. I find this tradition beautiful ≤3
Thank you! :) I love Mexican culture too its beautiful
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Its "greetings" go back to English classes you fool
@@elvischrist8826 chill bro.
This is real Morris dancing, with the correct steps, movements, music and outfits. Please continue to keep English culture and identity alive in the face of attempts to extinguish it.
I'm in the United States. The music is pleasant and the dance is straight of of youre history there as far as I can tell.
I enjoyed and was enlightened by the video.
Thank-you
This is one of many reasons why I love England.
Now THAT is the Morris dancing I grew up with in Berkshire in the 60s. The Fool in smock with bladder on a stick, the Hobby Horse, and all the traditions observed.
That to me is English as it gets I love it also I didn't realise there were so many different types of Morris dancing
Englishman here. I'm not going to comment on the dancing but I do love the music. Now I know why I love folk music, thanks to the Morris dancing that I heard in the 70's and 80's as a boy. That and a newly discovered love of sea shanties music. Ace.
Never be ashamed of your own culture. Here in Ireland we're not and we're supposed to hate you lol
And then they went and built the greatest empire the world has ever known.
After two beers, I always turn to the Morris Dancers on YOU TUBE.
So there's this bus load of blind people driving along and the bus driver starts getting tired.
He says to the blind people, "I'm pretty knackered; I'm stopping at the next pub for a bite to eat and a drink, what are you guys going to do?"
One of them replies, "no worries, we'll have a little game of football"
"Football?!" The driver cries, "but you're all blind!"
The blind guy says, "no, it's simple; we strap bells to the ball and then we can hear where it goes"
With that, the bus driver pulls into a pub, has a bite to eat and a drink. When he comes out, there are paramedics and ambulances everywhere.
Bus driver says, "what's been going on here then??"
Paramedic turns around and shouts, "never would have guessed!! A bus load of blind people kicked the sh*t out of a Morris dancer!!!!"
Lmao geez mate
I properly laughed out loud at that. I'm going to write that down.
@@WildBrumby you think you’re going to hell for laughing at a non-offensive joke?
5 years on, your comment is still giving people a good belly-wobbling chuckle. Thanks for sharing, mate :)
Priceless !. I had to change the cushion on my Armchair !
My mate fat fingers - a lump of a man who could fight for fun - served in the paras in the Falklands
He emigrated to NZ and when at sporting events Kiwis would be going on about the Haka him and his mate Goose another proper lad they would morris dance for the aggressive kiwis and take the edge off it all 🙏🏼
Morris dancing is ace !😊
Remember watching Morris Dancers at fairs when we lived in England during my childhood. Loved them. Still think them a great entertainment, not at all silly as some have commented here, and therefore a lovely tradition I hope will continue for generations.
Learned of the existence of this dance Terry Pratchett's Tiffany books. It's something I would have rather expected to see in Germany. Cute dance!
I learned about it from Reaper Man
I've never seen anything similar here in Germany, to me it looks more Scandinavian.
@@DerEchteBold I have. Reminders me of the traditional Carnival costumes around Garmisch-Partenkirchen with the bells around the legs, wips etc. It has a similar style, sound and it's kind of martial and sliiightly creepy.
@@phangirlable
Well, I don't know, if you want to see a similarity there, most European folk dances must be seen as similar.
The looks of this is quite a bit different from the Alpine traditions.
My youngest daughter had been carrying around a little what’s on in our area book and noticed she had a fixation with the cover which has a picture of morris dancers on it, I told her what you guys are called and that you dance, she loves all kinds of dancing and music she’s very eclectic I asked if she wanted to see the dance and she got very excited so I took that as a big yes 😂 you guys were the first video and at first she kept glancing at the picture to you and back again but the next three back to back replays she was focused solely on you guys! She squealed with joy and you guys get a standing ovation or round of applause from start to finish now 😂
We watched 4 times before she went to bed I asked her if she would Iike me to get some bells for my legs and she definitely approved
My daughter is 11yrs old, globally delayed, non verbal, on the autism spectrum and has a supersonically rare genetic disorder. You brightened up our rainy weekend!… I think you have just found your number one fan!
If you could see the joy she radiated through watching you it’d give a big one of these 🖕🏻 to everyone that takes the piss!…. People that do that usually aren’t confident enough to do what you do, if you love something anyone that can’t respect that probably want to try certain things but don’t because they don’t want people acting like they do towards themselves, what a dull existence! People that ridicule your loves and likes aren’t the kind of people you want around you anyway
Thank you ♥️
Dance, dance wherever you maybe as i am the lord of the dance said he, and i'll meet you all wherever you maybe as i am the lord of the dance said he...
I love it! I'm so glad these traditional dances are still around, and hope to someday attend one :)
Is that all you love, try a human
@northernlad2004 pardon, could you repeat
Every year for the past 20years, when I celebrate beltane, I can never find these dancers near me.
I grew up in Abingdon and remember this as a one of memories as child in the late 70s and till this day i love seeing this every year i even get to share a pint with them in many of the local pubs awesome tradition long may it continue
I would love to see this as a response to the All Black's haka!
Allan Watson Me too I think it would certainly make them think :-)
Allan Watson OMG I would so love to see that - even just on You Tube as an April Fool. Surely someone could upload a version of this
Well the Haka wasn’t much use against the British Army when we took their country off them. We might Morris Dance but we also kick ass.
Yeah it'd be good for a laugh
@@annesfavourites1037 I can imagine Harry and Paul doing a sketch on this, hilarious 🤭
Absolutely delightful, never stop dancing for our beloved England Lads--Bravo.
This is England for me.
Imagine my shock while Romania has an old traditional dance almost the same in costumes and style. The music has a different rhythm, check my answer from a few days ago!
Same
i'm so sorry bro that sucks
im hispanic and if I ever went to the uk I would love to see this☺️
Hispanic? Where?
This is Morris Dance…
So interesting
Thanks
from Japan
A complete joy.Love this ,a bit of English heritage to cherish well done Fellas,long may you continue.
As a kid in infants, we practiced maypole every Wednesday afternoon ready for mayday celebrations , another tradition wiped from the curriculum and english culture to please the snowflakes...
Why are the snowflake woke mob banning morris dancing. Do you have any news articles about this?
@@dacheezdawg shut it, yer feckin whinging wet fart...
this is great ! because this all Reunites *England* with all of the other Germanic nations' traditional/folk musics and dancings .
I never knew this Morris dancing before. I looked it up because of Sir Terry Pratchett. He mentioned it once or twice in his books. Oook. :-))
Don't know why people are taking the piss? Its a great English tradition sadly being lost for just that reason.
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@John mc: Well said! We must fight to retain our traditions and culture, along with our families and industries they are the backbone of the country.
@@@serbmihail4026 : That was a bit more challenging - more acrobatic than Morris Dancing, the second dance reminded me of Celtic folk dancing. Are the dances done there for the same reasons? Great video, I enjoyed seeing it - thanks.
I agree- I LOVE Morris dancers! I saw a Morris show in Liverpool on 18th May (2019)- it was great to see so many groups with younger Morris dancers. Long may Morris continue!
Good, I think it's a tradition the poms could do without
Kid: dies
The oompa loompas:
True
BAHAHAHAH
omfg
Dead 😂
Boring
So I was just watching a video of a haka dance at a wedding. An English bloke said the NZ haka is matched the English Morris dance which has brought me here. I worry my next breathe won’t come as the laughter is now uncontrollable.
🤣🤣
I came here because of Terry Pratchett and Tiffany Aching! :)
I love that book and have seen moris dancing in real Life
Keep it up and pass this to the next generation. So important to keep traditions alive.
k so i'm american so i've never seen this before. This was very interesting! Didn't even know there was a tradition like this!
A+ for history class!
+Bre Strum Same here. The Brit tv show, "Q.I." hosted by Stephen Frye, brought me here.
Shirley Jones haha wow!
+Bre Strum It's a fairly common sight in England. This is part of a tradition dating back at least 400 years but it had died out in many areas until the 1970s when there was a huge revival.
The English are generally very proud of being English, but that doesn't mean we have to take ourselves very seriously and Morris dancers generally don't. Most Morris dancing involves a lot of beer and general arsing about. We have a lot of entertaining (and often silly) folk traditions in England. If you've never been here, come and visit. You'd enjoy it.
Joshua Rosen Sounds amazing! I'd love to visit England!
Bre Strum
You're young and you have plenty of time. If you are at all interested in history, you should visit.
The history of England is evident everywhere you look. The town I live in is very pretty but only about 150 years old, which is just a baby by English standards but I can walk up to the moor and see stones carved with cup and ring marks 4000 years ago and they are all over the place. I love to stand on the moor and look across the dale thinking that people have been standing exactly where I am standing looking across the river for thousands of years. I love feeling that connection with the past.
This is absolutely spot on. Terrific all round. Super 🎶 playing too, rock steady with a terrific lilt. Perfect x.
Brilliant 🎉 LOVE IT sooo much ,happy and engaging (with bells on!) 👍🏽😂 ...Long live x
Looks like a slower version of the Russian dance 'Timonia' from the province of Kursk!!
Love it, thank you for sharing!! 💕💕
This is the coolest ever. In my home country I was the champion Morris dancer, all the ladies would try to sleep with me.
were they blind and deaf?
@@Gingernut50 just blind (and geriatric)
Very relevant today, demonstrating to all that you have not only a hanky for yourself, but one for another person should the need arise!
Good to see some younger guys here.
Great stuff, prance about waving hankies then off to the pub for a few pints of real ale. Love it
I live in France and we have an expat Morris dancing side. My whole family does it (mum, bro(18), me (15) and my dads the mascot(walks around wearing a cape and a giant papier mâché fish on his head(symbol of where we live))
WILTY brought me here. Thank you, David.
It looks amazing! Hi from Russia.
I really enjoyed that! Thank you for uploading. I haven't seen actual Morris Dancers for years, we used to see them in Cardiff at one time.
Very well danced and played. Respect.
Love the bloke doing it in his sunnies but also taking it super seriously.... seriously though, it is actually pretty cool to see this and I hope I get to see this in person one day.
This is fun! We have a local group where i live, but none of them are brave enough to ride the hobby horse.
Thanks for uploading this video, makes me much prouder of my Spanish heritage.
How come I never heard or seen this before despite living in the UK all of my life.
Very nice dancers and what beautiful costumes they are wearing!
Lovely 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The music is similar to Swedish folk dance music in many ways - played on fiddle and accordion, major scale sounds, the melodic figures used in the turnarounds before going back to the one chord, etc.
Beautiful video!
Ankle necklaces are so stylish, and must be fun to wear.
Good old England love it
Imagine the All Blacks doing the Haka...then England reply with a Morris Dance,,,,that would terrify me.... ;)
The point of the haka is to recount your past deeds in battle. The point of the Morris dance is to have a good time. In the past Morris dancers with their faces blackened so they would not be recognized by the authorities would dance and sing songs criticizing the goverment and the poor living conditions of the British masses.
Haha, all they need to do is remind them who was part of who's empire.
@@esmeraldagreen1992 More reason to do it, us brits are just at the game for a good time anyway!
oh i miss England
the guy with sunglasses on the left looks so serious and intense, i love it!
I never get tired of watching these Fellas.Great dance and tune.
Princess Royal is one of my very favourite Morris tunes.
It is a gift from the English people who honour her pain and suffering from her personal losses as we all face the loss of our parents ❤️🙏
FUN FACT: I used to be taught this in primary school until every school banned it in Kent under claims that it was "racist".
That don't surprise me. It would never be taught in London
That’s totally mad!
I keep expecting John Cleese to show his face
Cleese, another smartarse, is now laughing on the other side of his mocking face: John Cleese London No Longer English ruclips.net/video/WJheODYpuEI/видео.html
Very good - our tradition
You know in today's world, a man would have to be very secure in his manliness to maintain THIS tradition. Hats off to 'em.
I love that I'm named after a dance!
How fun!!! Love it!
These guys truly live that morris life .
Lovely. It's such a shame that it's a dieing tradition. We should be proud of it just like they r proud in New Zealand of the Haka. They should play this in every game & at primary & high schools so they wouldn't be embarrassed of it. Each country has a traditional dance that they r proud of & we seem to b embarrassed. But happy to show off one back side & boobs very English
Why do Morris Dancers wear bells when they dance?
So they can annoy blind people also.
My dad just told me that joke, so I had to look up what he was talking about. But I think this is wonderful! A+ 100%!
Anyone else here because they were reading Discworld and had to look up what Morris dancing was?
I was reading a Naomi Novil novel and I had to google it...and then follow on to YT. Amazing!
...and that's how line-dancing started. (I actually enjoy watching Morris since it was explained on a folk music cruise on the MV Balmoral out of Avonmouth in the 1970s.)
It looks amazing! Hi from Russia
I can't unsee this....... Oh... GOOOOD!!!
It's the "Does Anyone Need A Napkin?" Dance :)
While I don’t mind all the jokes, some people are just here to be disrespectful calling English culture bland and shit. If your one of those people please keep your views to yourself since a lot of people here (especially older people) come to enjoy their traditions and have a laugh every now and then
Yeah its kind of sad. Taking part in traditions meant to be fun and inclusive. It sucks how much people, especially other brits, take the piss out of it
This is cute. The two guys on the left were jumping and tossing their arms the highest it seemed.
the guy sith the sunnies on is this part of his parole obligations 😂😂😂
i had such a fun time here, right banter m8
yeah man, it was
Dancing like this wins wars!
I arrived to this vídeo because I have just read that this dance is influenced by "Moros y Cristianos" festivity, wich is tipical from some Spanish towns.
In South India, we people wear the same thing and dance for temple fests. Those things we wear would weigh about a total of 8 to 10 kilograms. I encountered the same in this video. I would paste a link here, how both the dances are similar to each other
lyrics...
Ol’ mother Harvey
Old Geroge Hunt
Went to Nuneham in a Punt
Lost the pole and away they went
and they never got to Numeham..
Based on an old tale about those two who were canoodling by the river
Loving these comments on here right now- references to Red Dwarf, John Cleese and Terry Pratchett! :D Yay! I'm a TP fan too! I only came on here to research for my short story lol.
Sky HD reminded me in a description for an episode of Midsomer Murders that there is some traditional dancing that some viewers may find upsetting. 🤣
😆😆😆Whyyyy???
I have often thought that a Morris dance would be a perfect response to the All Black's haka!
Is that Old Mother Oxford done as the opening? I didn't quite catch the lyrics... Great lead-in for Princess Royal!
AlnessW “old mother Harvey, Old George Hunt went to Numeham in a punt,
lost the pole and away they went,
and they never got to Numeham”
Based on a real tale about those two persons caught canoodling by the river
Excellent.
Finally a dance i can take up professionally