I'll Buy Boots For Maggie

polka

Key signature: Aminor

Submitted on November 30th 2002 by SPeak.

This tune has been added to 49 tunebooks.

Also known as Boots For Maggie, Corcomroe Abbey.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Crabs In The Skillet by Old Bay Ceili Band
• Cruinn by Academy Of Irish Music Chicago
• Cuts From The Turf by Hooley
• Footprints by No I.D.
• Hill 16 by Hill 16
• Live At Carnegie Hall by Boys Of The Lough
• Nine Fine Irishmen's Sin E Ri-Ra by Sin E Ri-Ra
• Regrouped by Boys Of The Lough
• Saint Bushmill's Choir by Saint Bushmill's Choir
• Sea Changes Of The Toucan Pirates by Toucan Pirates
• The First Harvest by Iain MacDonald And Iain MacFarlane
• Three Colours Ginger by Brongaene Griffin With Gerry O'Beirne And Kevin Burke

X: 1
T: I'll Buy Boots For Maggie
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Amin
EA AB|cB AB|EA AB|cB A2|EA AB|cB AB|ef/e/ dB|BA AG:|
|:A>B cd|eg a2|ef/e/ dB|BA AG|A>B cd|eg a2|ef/e/ dB|BA AG:|
"Variation:"
EA AB|cB AB|FA AB|cB A2|^FA AB|cB AB|ef/e/ dB|BA AG:|
|:A>B cd|eg a2|ef/e/ dB|BA AG|A>B cd|eg a2|ef/e/ dB|BA AG:|

I'm not TOO big on polkas, but I found this little morsel a while back and have been playing it ever since.

# Posted on November 30th 2002 by SPeak

I'll buy boots for maggie

We play this as a set: -
I'll buy boots for Maggie,Maggie in the woods,and Santa Annas Retreat - always works a treat.
Alan

# Posted on December 1st 2002 by Alanmmcgregor

I have an inside out version - i.e. the B-part is the A-part and vice versa. Also, the B-part (the A-part of the version posted here) is an octave higher, up until the last two bars.

# Posted on December 2nd 2002 by CreadurMawnOrganig

Does anyone know who wrote it? It sounds like a recent composition.

I play it upside down too. Actually there a quite a few polkas and slides that I like better with the high part first and then the minor low part second.

# Posted on February 1st 2007 by fiddlesoup

Corcomroe Abbey is very similar to this tune

# Posted on June 11th 2008 by fynnjamin

Corcomroe Abbey

In fact I'll post it here, in case it gets taken off, as it is pretty much a duplication. No idea where the name's from though.


X: 1
T: Corcomroe Abbey
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Ador
|: A,>B, CD | EG GA | EG/E/ DB, | A,B, G,B, | A,>B, CD | EG GA | EG/E/ DB, | B,A, A,2 :|
|: E2 AB | cB AB | =F2 AB | cB AB | ^F2 AB | cB AB | EG/E/ DB, | B,A, A,2 :|

# Posted on June 13th 2008 by fynnjamin

weird that the A & B parts are swapped in the two versions...
The tune I know as Corcomroe Abbey is the variation of Boots for Maggie.

# Posted on June 13th 2008 by fynnjamin

"I'll Buy Boots For Maggie"

Submitted on April 27th 2008 by fynnjamin.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8485

# Posted on July 11th 2010 by ceolachan

"Polca Aine" ~ "Anne's Polka"

Submitted on October 5th 2008 by gian marco.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8981

# Posted on July 11th 2010 by ceolachan