Anything For John Joe?

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on July 1st 2004 by Dr. Dow.

This tune has been added to 94 tunebooks.

Also known as Anything For John Joe, Anything For John-Jo, Anything For John-Joe, Anything For Jonjo.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Collection Of Jigs And Reels by Shaskeen
• Echoes Of Sliabh Luachra by Billy Clifford
• Folk Im Schlosshof 2009 Live by Various Artists
• Irish Pennywhistle Taught By Cathal McConnell by Cathal McConnell
• The 3rd Irish Folk Festival In Concert by Various Artists
• The Art Of Traditional Fiddle Playing by Matt Cranitch
• The Blue-eyed Rascal by Siún
• The Moneymusk by Hammy Hamilton
• The Star Above The Garter by Denis Murphy And Julia Clifford
• Touchdown by Whisht!

X: 1
T: Anything For John Joe?
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
F2AF G2BG|F2AF E2DE|F2AF G2BG|ABcA d4:|
f2f2 e2de|faaf e2de|f2f2 efed|cABc d3e|
f2f2 e2de|faaf e2de|fefg a2a2|ABcA d4||

Anything For John Joe?

A fairly common session tune. The first part sounds a bit like "The Little Bag Of Spuds" in G.

# Posted on July 1st 2004 by Dr. Dow

Here's a link to "The Little Bag Of Spuds" posted by Josh Kane: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/391

# Posted on July 1st 2004 by Dr. Dow

I see that this has brought up Hammy Hamilton's "Money Musk" in the recordings list, but the tune on that album is the afore-mentioned "Little Bag Of Spuds". I think there might be an error in the track listing - the 2 tunes are easily confused.

# Posted on July 1st 2004 by Dr. Dow

Hammy Hamilton already made some mistakes in the track listing. He plays "The Fair Haired Lass" as "The Dark Haired Lass," "Miss Thornton" as "The House on the Hill." I'm not surprised if he mixed up some more tunes.

# Posted on July 2nd 2004 by slainte

"Anything For John Joe" / "The Bag of Spuds" ~ let's not stop there

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on January 22nd 2004 by gian marco.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2425

# Posted on June 23rd 2006 by ceolachan

Anything For John Joe

I play this Reel a bit different - I got it from the
playing of Colin Hamilton and Ben Gunn, many moon's ago -

I changed your abc around a little to something how I
play it --

X:1
T:Anything For John Joe
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
K:D
F2AF G2BG|F2AF EFDE|F2AF G2BG|ABcA d4 |
F2AF G2BG|F2AF EFDE|F2AF G2BG|ABcA d3z|
f2~f2 e2de|faaf e2de|f2~f2 e2dB|ABcA d3e|
f2~f2 e2de|faaf e2.d2|efge a3z|ABcA d4 ||

But here's and old youtube vid of me doing it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ejIcAFMQSk

jim,,,

# Posted on July 27th 2010 by FIDDLE4

Anything for John Joe.

It's Humpty Dumpty as a reel lads.

# Posted on July 28th 2010 by Prof. Prlwytzkofski