Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on January 10th 2010 by bogman.
This tune has been added to 19 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Canongate Twitch, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amaj
|: Ac ~c2 dcBc | Acea f2 ec | Ac ~c2 dcBc | fB ~B2 fBaB |
Ac ~c2 dcBc | Acea f2 ec | ABcA ~B2 AB | c2 Bd cA A2 :|
|: afda fdaf | e2 ef ecBc | A2 AB ABce | fB ~B2 fBdf |
afda fdaf | e2 ef ecBc | ABcA B2 AB | ceBd cA A2 :|
The Canongate Twitch
I picked this tune up years ago from a Tannahill Weavers recording. It's already listed here as an alternative name for the Green Gates but this is a well known Scottish tune.
# Posted on January 10th 2010 by bogman
Very much related to that old setting of The Lady of the House.
|GABG c2 BA|GBdg e2 dB|GABG A2 Bd|eA A2 eA A2|
# Posted on January 14th 2010 by 52Paddy
Not sure about that Paddy.
# Posted on January 15th 2010 by bogman
Well they're very similar tunes. They move in the same direction melodically with just a few different takes on similar phrases. If they have completely separate origins, I put it down to a huge coincidence. I will not state that they are definitely related, but I would not be one bit surprised to find out some link between along the way.
# Posted on January 16th 2010 by 52Paddy
This tune was also published in David Glen's collection of Irish tunes for GHB round the turn of the century as The Woman of the House in the Centre, presumably a translation from the Gaelic. Battlefield Band picked it up on ?Rain Hail & Shine (or something like that), but I think they had it from another Victorian collection. I play the second part something like
(3aaa af ggge | (3aaa af ecAc | (3aaa af ggge | fB ~B2 fB ~B2
(3aaa af ggge | (3aaa af ecAc | ABcA ~B2 AB | c2 Bd cAA |]
# Posted on February 19th 2010 by Calum