Can anyone help me with the name of this tune? Can’t remember where I heard it, but it was a waltz done on fiddle. Many thanks!
-Joey
Sounds like it may be related to ‘Jock Stewart’
Here’s a YT clip where you can hear the melody without too much arrangement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHkNlRyxa0&feature=related
…and some ABCs from Nigel Gatherer via JC’s Tunefinder:
X: 1
T:Jock Stewart
S:Tannahill Weavers LP, memory
Z:Nigel Gatherer
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:G
GA | B2 d2 B2 | A6- | A2 z2
GA | B2 g2 f2 | e6- | e2 z2
gg | g3 d B2 | A2 G2 A2 | B6 | A2 z2
GA | B2 d2 B2 | A6- | A2 z2
GA | B2 g2 f2 | e6- | e2 z2
gg | g3 d B2 | A2 G2 A2 | G6 | G2 |]
Thanks for the reply! Listened to the tune, just not sure that’s it. Any other ideas (anyone)? I’d like to record this with another tune on our next album, but I have no idea what it’s called, or even how the missing parts of it went…
Thanks again for your time!
-Joey
This is just reading your notation; no instrument to hand to try it out, but … The first part reads like an alternate-key bit of “I Courted a Wee Girl,” but the snippet of the B part loses me. Maybe you heard the Dervish version with the instrumental break?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HCCw4v5-4A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFQ0zA7VC-c&feature=related
If this seems like the A part at least, might want to look up the Dervish recording and see if the break or bridge is what’s informing your B part. IIRC, they paired it with “Josefin’s Waltz.”