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

This is authentic Morris dancing and music. Thanks for keeping traditional English culture alive.

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.

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.

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!

I am an Arab from Yemen I love the English people 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🇾🇪

You foreigners laugh, but this is the only tried and tested way to get an English lady in the mood for conjugal activities.

I sincerely wish that more men felt cool enough to express themselves this way.

Wow the tradition must be protected at all cost😲

Greets from Mexico. I find this tradition beautiful ≤3

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 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...

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'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.

Thanks Sir Pratchett. Would have never discover this piece of english culture without you.

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.

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.

I love it! I'm so glad these traditional dances are still around, and hope to someday attend one :)

Beautiful, keep alive your history. Blessings from Mexico.

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.

I would love to see this as a response to the All Black's haka!

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.

And then they went and built the greatest empire the world has ever known.

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!

A complete joy.Love this ,a bit of English heritage to cherish well done Fellas,long may you continue.

This is England for me.

I love our beautiful English culture 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I’m from France and my uni teacher showed us some Morris dancing years ago. Now my friends and I really want to have the occasion to travel and see some Morris Dancing with our own eyes!

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This is Morris Dance… So interesting Thanks from Japan

Absolutely delightful, never stop dancing for our beloved England Lads--Bravo.

After two beers, I always turn to the Morris Dancers on YOU TUBE.

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 !😊

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. :-))

im hispanic and if I ever went to the uk I would love to see this☺️

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!!!!"

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!

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

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 ♥️

this is great ! because this all Reunites *England* with all of the other Germanic nations' traditional/folk musics and dancings .

I came here because of Terry Pratchett and Tiffany Aching! :)

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.

This is absolutely spot on. Terrific all round. Super 🎶 playing too, rock steady with a terrific lilt. Perfect x.

This is the coolest ever. In my home country I was the champion Morris dancer, all the ladies would try to sleep with me.

Good to see some younger guys here.

Don't know why people are taking the piss? Its a great English tradition sadly being lost for just that reason.

I keep expecting John Cleese to show his face

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.

Good old England love it

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.

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))

Very relevant today, demonstrating to all that you have not only a hanky for yourself, but one for another person should the need arise!

Keep it up and pass this to the next generation. So important to keep traditions alive.

Every year for the past 20years, when I celebrate beltane, I can never find these dancers near me.

Thanks for uploading this video, makes me much prouder of my Spanish heritage.

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.

WILTY brought me here. Thank you, David.

oh i miss England

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...

Great stuff, prance about waving hankies then off to the pub for a few pints of real ale. Love it

the guy with sunglasses on the left looks so serious and intense, i love it!

Imagine the All Blacks doing the Haka...then England reply with a Morris Dance,,,,that would terrify me.... ;)

Beautiful video!

Anyone else here because they were reading Discworld and had to look up what Morris dancing was?

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.

Very nice dancers and what beautiful costumes they are wearing! Lovely 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

FUN FACT: I used to be taught this in primary school until every school banned it in Kent under claims that it was "racist".

I love that I'm named after a dance!

Princess Royal is one of my very favourite Morris tunes.

Very good - our tradition

These guys truly live that morris life .

I never get tired of watching these Fellas.Great dance and tune.

...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.)

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

Ankle necklaces are so stylish, and must be fun to wear.

Brilliant 🎉 LOVE IT sooo much ,happy and engaging (with bells on!) 👍🏽😂 ...Long live x

Some say The Princess Royal should be the National Anthem of England...

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

This is fun! We have a local group where i live, but none of them are brave enough to ride the hobby horse.

How fun!!! Love it!

It looks amazing! Hi from Russia.

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%!

This is cute. The two guys on the left were jumping and tossing their arms the highest it seemed.

Looks like a slower version of the Russian dance 'Timonia' from the province of Kursk!! Love it, thank you for sharing!! 💕💕

It's the "Does Anyone Need A Napkin?" Dance :)

How come I never heard or seen this before despite living in the UK all of my 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

I can't unsee this....... Oh... GOOOOD!!!

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. 🤣

ok , i am the third one in a row who says it , but still..... best response to haka

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

Excellent.

I have often thought that a Morris dance would be a perfect response to the All Black's haka!

Dancing like this wins wars!

Finally a dance i can take up professionally

i had such a fun time here, right banter m8

This looks similar to the romanian calurasii, although it is a lot slower paced. maybe some remnants of a common tradition at some point in history, who knows

Gi'us all the three parts o' the tune with the slows too.