Does anyone know where I can find the dots for this tune and perhaps other tunes by the Pogues? or is it the Waterboys?
Thanks
How about Planxty? 
Jason
A transcription of the version that Planxty recorded is in Breathnach’s Folk Music and Dances of Ireland as noted from the source singer. If I’m remembering correctly, the source for this version was a traveller named something like John Reidy.
Words and music for another version is here, but I don’t know which version this is.
Quite - you need to decide on a version, or browse multiple and concoct your own (a very trad thing to do!). It is a very common song with many close variants throughout the British Isles - many different sets of words, some with variations on the plot and different titles, and quite a few alternative tunes too… Have fun!
It was pretty commonly known to British schoolchildren as an archetypal folk ballad before such things disappeared from school curricula in favour of multi cultural material (nowt wrong with that, problem is what got dumped to make way!). The lyrics are mentioned in one of the early Arthur Ransome Swallows & Amazons books (forget which off hand, prob the 1st), for example, as are many other folk songs and sea songs/shanties. I heard it with many other things in the context of the old BBC Singing Together programmes, or something similar, that most primary schools used in the 60s and 70s.
The scurrilous suggestion that the young lady in question ‘caught her death of cold’ is nothing but unfounded speculation!
Indeed, Simon! Fun though?
An after-thought to my previous post: the song is probably most often entitled The Wraggle Taggle Gypsy/ies (Oh!) with a “W” - may affect web-searches…
This is what I was looking for. Thanks to all.
Minor correction - I think Christy Moore’s source singer for the song was John Reilly of Co.Kildare, if I remember correctly. I could be wrong, but I will check. The gentleman deserves credit for passing on his music.
Love the song, but I would never try to do it because it would feel incomplete to me without the pipes kicking into to ‘Tabhair Dom Do Laimh’ (sp?) at the end, and I doubt Liam O’Flynn would be free to join my band to rectify the problem.
Same with ‘Little Musgrave’. Brilliant song, but I’d also want yer man there to provide the horn warning on pipes and and the lady’s last cry on tin whistle.
No harm in asking I suppose… Anyone got Liam O’Flynn’s phone number?