Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on November 19th 2010 by birlibirdie.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Also known as Good Night.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Fairly Shot Of Her
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Emin
E/F/GE E/F/GE|E2B BGE|E/F/GE E/F/GE|D2A AFD|
E/F/GE E/F/GE|E2B BGB|cBA dcB|D2A AFD:|
B/^c/dE B2E |B/^c/dE BGE|B/^c/dE B2E|B/^c/dB AFD|
B/^c/dE B2E|B/^c/dE BGB|cBA dcB|D2A AFD:|
Fairly Shot Of Her
This could equally be written in 6/4 or 3/8 or 3/4.
Arguably not a jig in the modern sense of the word, it's nice played slow; It has a nice marching lilt to it.
I wrote it from memory: Clannad are the only artists who have recorded it to my knowledge. I can't recall if they play it in minor throughout or if they use these c# .
# Posted on November 19th 2010 by birlibirdie
It plays nicely after the 5 part/Eminor version of The Peacock Follows the Hen I posted at: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1145/comments
# Posted on November 19th 2010 by birlibirdie
Does anyone know where this tune originated? And what's behind the title?
# Posted on November 19th 2010 by birlibirdie
Scottish ?
"Oh gin I were fairly shot o' her,
Fairly, fairly fairly shot' o' her,
Oh gin I were fairly shot o' her,
If she were deid, I wad dance on the top o' her"
It's a Scottish love song.
I don't know if it is originally Scottish or Irish. Sung and recorded by that great Scottish singer Sylvia Barnes when she was a member of Glasgow band "Kentigern".
# Posted on November 19th 2010 by Kenny
PS....
The "Clannad" tune and the the "Kentigern" tune aren't identical, but are clearly variants of the same tune.
# Posted on November 19th 2010 by Kenny
I think Clannad uses everywhere C natural so the tune is in e minor, not e dorian
# Posted on November 20th 2010 by swisspiper
Northumbrianian version
X: 4
T:Fairly Shot of Her.
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:G
B|:"Am"c2A c2A |c2e ecA|c2A c2A|GB" G"d dBG|
"Am"c2A c2A|c2e ece |ce"Am"g dB" G"G|"D"A2B cBA:|!
|:"G"G2g gfg|"D"B2d d^cd|"G"G2g gfg|GBd dBA|
G2g gfg|gfg d2B|cd"C"e dB" G"G|"Am"A2B cBA:|
# Posted on November 20th 2010 by geoffwright
Fairly Shot
There are numerous versions in print and ms, Northumbrian, English, Scottish and Irish. AFAIK the earliest sighting is a quirky version in the Atkinson ms (Northumberland, 1695). The one to avoid is in the Northumbrian Minstrelsy, which garbles strain 2.
It's in O'Neills 1001 as Good Night (No. 405).
Northumbrian 'on' = English 'of' = Scottish 'o'.
# Posted on November 20th 2010 by Matt Seattle
Oops
'The one to avoid' was posted while I was writing my comment...
# Posted on November 20th 2010 by Matt Seattle
Alternative A part to avoid in dodgy Stokoe version
c2A c2A|c2e ece |fdf ece|dBg dBG:|
# Posted on November 21st 2010 by geoffwright
Jacobite song
I fooled around on the concertina a bit recently playing this tune, and it suddenly sounded very familiar: Ewan McColl used it on "Songs from the Jacobite Rebellions"; there it´s called "Donald McGillivray" .
# Posted on December 9th 2010 by alexweger