Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on February 22nd 2003 by Trevor Jennings.
This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.
Also known as Little John's Hame, William Marshall's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Little Johnnie's Hame
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: strathspey
K: Dmaj
D2A,>D F>DA<D|d2c>d B>dA<D|E2B,>E G>Eg>f|(3efd (3cdB (3ABG (3FGE|
D2A,>D F>DA<D|d2c>d B>dA>F|G>B (3efg (3fed a>A|1 (3Adf a>A d3D:|2 (3Adf a>A d3g|
|:f2d>f (3Adf a>g|f>dA<d F>AD>f|g2e>g (3Beg b>a|(3gab (3efg (3cde A>g|
f2d>f (3Adf a>g|f>dA<d F>AD>F|1 G>B (3efg (3fed a>A|(3Adf a>A d3g:|
2 G>B (3efg (3fed (3afd|(3AFD A,>C D4||
I learnt this tune today at the Hibernia Centre in Bristol, and transcribed from my tape of Jill Elliott's teaching performance.
It goes well with The Laird of Drumblair strathspey (on this site) which I also learnt recently.
# Posted on February 22nd 2003 by Trevor Jennings
The tune seems to have come from Scotland to Donegal, as many strathspeys have done. "Hame", I believe, is Scottish for "home".
# Posted on February 22nd 2003 by Trevor Jennings
There is an error in second repeat bar of the first part; it should read (3Adf a>A d3g.
# Posted on February 22nd 2003 by Trevor Jennings
Recording
This one has been recorded by Tommy Peoples and Daithi Sproule on the record The Iron Man; The tune is played together with The Iron Man.
# Posted on February 24th 2003 by Henk Bos
Dermot Byrne and Tommy Peoples on youtube
In the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJxiBQaoo_Q they seem to be putting the scottish snaps in the first of each dotted crotchet/semiquaver pair (eg "F<DA>D" instead of "F>DA<D").
Which is the more usual session version?
# Posted on September 19th 2010 by Martin_BC
Great video of Tommy Peoples playing it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls_UI9Z0Yz0
# Posted on October 20th 2011 by SmashTheWindows