I'm naughty - and sometimes pick tunes to learn just because I find the names amusing. Was wondering what the most amusing tune combinations...just by putting the names together could be?
ie/ My Wife's a Drunkard
I buried my wife and danced on her grave
followed by......
(Just thought I'd offer a creative outlet different from troll feeding!)
In order of appearance:
Touching Cloth
Sitting On The Throne
Martin Wynn's No. 1
Martin Wynn's No.2
The Rattling Bog
The Bog Carrot
The Smell of The Bog
Coming Home From The Bog
Last night we played a precious metals set:
The Old Copperplate
The Silver Spear
The Golden Keyboard
We would have followed it up with The Platinum Pantaloons but nobody could remember how it goes.
This is too good to be true - a pair of jigs:
I Buried My Wife and Danced On Top of Her
Bimid Ag Ol (a.k.a. Dance Light For My Heart Lies Under Your Feet, see CCE II 49)
"My brother Tom" and the "Maid at the well" were "Kissing and drinking" at "Lannigans ball" when "John Whites mother" was being an "Eavesdropper" and said "Is it the priest you want?" "Come upstairs with me", "Lock the door" "Dress her out in fine clothes" "Comb your hair and curl it" "Tie the petticoat tighter" while the "Young lads prepared for marriage."
"The wedding" was being held "Upstairs in a tent" when a "yellowhaired laddie" ran in shouting "I'm ready now!" "I have no money" but "I'm waiting for you!" "My brother Tom" turned to the "Maid at the well" and said "I know not whether to laugh or cry" but "Come now or stay" I will not be "Tied to a wife" when there are "Twin sisters" "Behind the bush in the the garden!"
Sets put together just by tune name
Sets put together just by tune name
I'm naughty - and sometimes pick tunes to learn just because I find the names amusing. Was wondering what the most amusing tune combinations...just by putting the names together could be?
ie/ My Wife's a Drunkard
I buried my wife and danced on her grave
followed by......
(Just thought I'd offer a creative outlet different from troll feeding!)
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by TheCurvyFiddle
Re: Sets put together just by tune name
hehe, I always loved this set by Hamish Moore:
The Ale is Dear
Malts on the Optics
Farewell to Decorum
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by anastasiadesroches
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How about:
Get up old woman and shake yourself
I'm just a silly old man
Behind a bush in the garden
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by bowburner
Re: Sets put together just by tune name
In order of appearance:
Touching Cloth
Sitting On The Throne
Martin Wynn's No. 1
Martin Wynn's No.2
The Rattling Bog
The Bog Carrot
The Smell of The Bog
Coming Home From The Bog
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by Ottery
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The frog set:
The hairy chested frog
The croaking frog
Bang your frog on the sofa
The used bullfrog
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by bowburner
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How about a set called The Wise Sligo Maid In The Cherry Tree Behind the Bar in Mt. Kisco (or Mitchelltown)?
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by Jiml
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We could get all full of innuendo with a set of:-
Kiss me Fast My Minnie's Coming
The Loose Petticoat
Bang your Frog on the Sofa
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by TheCurvyFiddle
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Hey Ottery - you just need tune names that get you there.
Can't find one with the word 'curry' in it!
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by TheCurvyFiddle
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my band play a tune called:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Malaria?
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by DubChieftain
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Well, Strung Up,
how about The Humours Of BaltiConnell?
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by Ottery
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We always play The Last Pint as the last tune at our session.
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by BE
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Drops of Brandy, Mug of Brown Ale, Glass of Beer and Cup of Tea for the Teetotaller (another good reel!).
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by Bannerman
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the hairy
old bush
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by bathfiddler
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The Old Bush followed by the Congress. Silly "political" set.
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by Crysania
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Old Hag You have Killed Me
I've Buried my Wife
Drag her Round the Road
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by EastPole
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Jenny's Chickens' Welcome to Charlie's Car
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by GaryAMartin
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The Price of My Pig - Munster Bacon
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by GaryAMartin
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If We Hadn't Any Women in the World / The Roving Bachelor
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by slainte
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Imagination is all very well, but I actually play a Violent Jig Set:
Drag Her Across The Road (Bill Harte's)/The Battering Ram/Smash The Windows.
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by oldstrings
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Old Bush / Up to your head in Sand with Teague's Ailement
I always thought that the Scholar & The Wise Maid was a smart couple.
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by morning star
Re: Sets put together just by tune name
Last night we played a precious metals set:
The Old Copperplate
The Silver Spear
The Golden Keyboard
We would have followed it up with The Platinum Pantaloons but nobody could remember how it goes.
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by patrick cavanagh
Re: Sets put together just by tune name
The Silver Spire works with them too.
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by morning star
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The Butterfly/ Swallowtail
Cold Frosty Morning/ The Creel of Turf
The Frost is All Over/ A Merry Christmas
Christmas Day in the Morning (I Saw Three Ships)/ Christmas Day i' da Moarnin' (Shetland)
The Graceful Young Woman/ The Gentle Maiden
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by Tracie
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Jig/reel set: Wellington’s Advance/Bonaparte’s Retreat
Rohypnol set: My Darling’s Asleep/Fasten the Leg on Her
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by fidkid
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Father Kelly's
Rolling in the rye grass
# Posted on December 7th 2006 by lazyhound
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An Phis Fhliuch
Behind the Haystack
(ahem!)
# Posted on December 7th 2006 by lazyhound
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This is too good to be true - a pair of jigs:
I Buried My Wife and Danced On Top of Her
Bimid Ag Ol (a.k.a. Dance Light For My Heart Lies Under Your Feet, see CCE II 49)
# Posted on December 7th 2006 by GaryAMartin
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Oops. I meant CRE (Breathnach) as the reference for the alternate title.
# Posted on December 7th 2006 by GaryAMartin
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Tell Her I Am
The Girl From the Big House
# Posted on December 8th 2006 by leoj
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Merrily Danced the Quakers Wife
My Wifes a Wanton Wee Thing
Stool of Repentance
# Posted on December 8th 2006 by Sunnybear
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So far Ottery has the longest list. I wonder if anyone could write a full prargraph just using tune names? Well, it is nearly Christmas....
# Posted on December 8th 2006 by bowburner
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Wasn't there a song with a story that moved entirely around in tune names?
Gary: Bimid ag Ol does not actually mean what you have there, the full title translates as 'we're drinking and kissing the women'
# Posted on December 8th 2006 by kilfarboy
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Right, but Breathnach gives what I put in parentheses as an alternate title that he found for the tune.
# Posted on December 8th 2006 by GaryAMartin
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"My brother Tom" and the "Maid at the well" were "Kissing and drinking" at "Lannigans ball" when "John Whites mother" was being an "Eavesdropper" and said "Is it the priest you want?" "Come upstairs with me", "Lock the door" "Dress her out in fine clothes" "Comb your hair and curl it" "Tie the petticoat tighter" while the "Young lads prepared for marriage."
"The wedding" was being held "Upstairs in a tent" when a "yellowhaired laddie" ran in shouting "I'm ready now!" "I have no money" but "I'm waiting for you!" "My brother Tom" turned to the "Maid at the well" and said "I know not whether to laugh or cry" but "Come now or stay" I will not be "Tied to a wife" when there are "Twin sisters" "Behind the bush in the the garden!"
I make that twenty four!!
# Posted on December 8th 2006 by bowburner
Re: Sets put together just by tune name
Corny, but fits:
My Darling Asleep
Tripping up the Stairs
Off She Goes
also (thanks, Andrew!)
The Cook in the Kitchen
The Stool of Repentance
# Posted on December 9th 2006 by mickray
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Or maybe
The Silver Spire
The Silver Spear
The Floating Crowbar
as a companion set to lazyhound's second suggestion.....
# Posted on December 9th 2006 by mickray
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Brilliant, bowburner!
# Posted on December 9th 2006 by oldstrings