Coffin Dance - AJJ Coffin Dance Tune

Shoot him again ‘cause I can see his soul dancing

Shoot him again ‘cause I can see his soul dancing

I'm gonna miss this place

If you give it to me I'll give it back much harder

If you treat me like a son, then I'll treat you like a daughter

Everyone has a future, everyone has a soul,

Everyone has a heart, they have a mind, they have control. (Oh-oh)

The Coffin Dancer dances like he has something the prove because he does

He sleeps a couple hours in the morning, hates the morning when he wakes up.

The Coffin Dancer dances like he wants to make a friend, but he does not

The eye contact he makes with each and everyone he doesn't see is kinda hot

I don't wanna go to here, there's nothing left to go on here,

There's nothing left to go on, but the love and sense of tender in your eyes.

Shoot him again ‘cause I can see his soul dancing.

I'm gonna miss this place

I'm gonna miss its face

Just like a vein inside my heart.

Two Folk Dance Tune Sets Coffin Dance Tune Download

Two Folk Dance Tune Sets

A set of jigs and a set of reels chosen and arranged by Rob Harbron as part of The Full English school project at Hanham High School, South Gloucestershire in 2014.

Each set consists of 3 dance tunes chosen to work well together as a set. One is a set of reels, tunes in simple time (2/4, 4/4, 2/4), used for dances such as the Dashing White Sergeant. The other set is of jigs, tunes in compound time (6/8, 9/8, 12/8), used for dances such as Circassian Circle. Each tune might be repeated a few times before moving on to the next in the set.

Chords have been suggested – but these chords are merely suggestions – most folk musicians would use chords similar to these but different musicians would be likely to change chords in different places. Some players would use a lot more relative minors, some would hold drones or pedals, and some would go for a much more jazzy approach. And of course the tunes work very well by themselves with no chords.

You can download the Two Folk Dance Sets pack on the PDF tab.

Audio recordings of Rob playing each individual tune slowly, and then each set played at dance speed are available at the audio tab.

Rob Harbron

Rob is a sought-after multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer and one of the country’s leading players of the English concertina. He performs and records with numerous artists including Leveret, Fay Hield and the Hurricane Party, Emma Reid, Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings, Kerr Fagan Harbron and Fieldfare. He was Musical Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2013 production of The Winter’s Tale, and he has recently been commissioned to write music for the British Silent Film Festival, the English Folk Dance and Song Society and the Royal Geographical Society. He is a popular teacher and workshop leader, directs the English Acoustic Collective Summer School and has been a tutor for the National Youth Folklore Troupe of England.