The Heel And Toe polka

Source: Seamus Quinn & Gary Hastings - slan le lough eirne
Transcription: gian marco pietrasanta

That is a good tune. It sounds very much like an English Polka. There many tunes called "Heel an Toe Polka" played by country sance band. This one is new to me

Classic Southern English stuff.
I think its in the Hardy manuscripts amongst other sources.
Noel

Australian (from Tom Maguire’s Tin Whistle Book). It’s not a lot like X:1 but is a nice little polka.

X:2 sounds to me very like the old song ‘Little Brown Jug’.

Round my way (Sussex, UK) there are at least two different tunes that go under the title of ‘Heel & Toe Polka’, both of which have been played at sessions but neither of which are those posted above. I’ll put them up on this page, if it’s o.k. to lump different tunes together on the basis of their having the same name.

I’ve been playing this one for years but can’t remember where I got it. Maybe it was in one of Dave Townsend’s collections. I’ve always played it with ‘Fred Pigeon’s Polka’.

This is a version that’s well known in the Lewes area (and is adapted at Christmas time to merge into ‘Jingle Bells’). And yes, I know it’s notated in 4/4 when the time sig is given as 2/4. One day, I might re-write it if I can be bothered.

Bazza : nice to see different tunes with the same name. Spent ‘86 to turn of the millennium in Lewes and used to go to the Lewes Arms for music. I think the Elephant and Castle has folk music these days??

Bazza : really like the idea of THT merging into Jingle Bells at Xmas time. All these tunes look like fun to me.