Oot Be Est Da Vong

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on April 15th 2002 by granama.

This tune has been added to 75 tunebooks.

Also known as A Cur Nan Gobhar As A' Chreig, The Kilt Is My Delight, O'ot Be Est Da Vong, Oo't Be Est Da Vong, Oot B'aist Da Vong, Oot B'est Da Vong, Oot Be East Da Vong, Oot Be Est Da Vong.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Da Farder Ben Da Welcomer by Fiddlers' Bid
• Get Out by Capercaillie
• Happy Daze by Battlefield Band
• Live At Carnegie Hall by Boys Of The Lough
• On Safari by Keep It Up
• Rain, Hail Or Shine by Battlefield Band
• Roaming Free by Colin MacLeod And Rory Sinclair
• Shetland Fiddle Music by School Of Scottish Studies, University Of Edinburgh
• Solas by Solas
• The Silver Bow: The Fiddle Music Of Shetland by Tom Anderson And Aly Bain
• Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 3, Disc 1 by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Oot Be Est Da Vong
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
dB | AFAB ABd2 | fdfd edBd | AFAB ABde | faef d2 :|
ef | g2ge f2fd | e2ef edB2 | g2ge f2fd | edef a2af |
g2ge f2fd | edef edBd | AFAB ABde | faef d2 ||

This tune was requested by Urs Boegli in Discussions. As is evident from the title, it's a 'foreign' tune, from Shetland and appears on one of Solas's albums. It has a close relative in the Scottish reel, The Kilt is My Delight, and, although I can't think of any at the moment, I'm sure it must also have some cousins in Ireland.

# Posted on April 15th 2002 by granama

David's setting sounds "older" to me than what Solas plays on the cd. If you're trying to match what's on the cd, it goes something like:

|:A~F3 ABde|~f3d edBd|A~F3 ABde|1 fdef d2 dB:|
|2 fdef d3f|
|~g3e ~f3d|edef edBA|~g3e f2 fd|edef ~a3f|
|~g3e ~f3d|edef edBd|A~F3 ABde|faec d2 dB|

Also, instead of the |A~F3 ABde| phrase, they sometimes play it AFEF ABde|.

# Posted on April 15th 2002 by Will CPT

O'ot Be Est Da Vong

This tune is also on the new Fiddlers Bid album "Da Farder ben Da Welcomer", must listen to to hear how the Shetlanders play. This is one of my favourite Shetland tunes, lots of energy in it. I put some rolls into it on the whistle and flute.

The title refers to a part of the Outer Skerries in Shetland called the Vong, and it means "east of the vong" used when describing things when their off on the boat. (translation from Maurice Henderson of Fiddlers Bid).

I encourage everyone to learn it and play it in sessions everywhere!!!

# Posted on April 16th 2002 by Jenny

Thanks for the translation. My imagination was taking it in entirely other directions....;o)

# Posted on April 16th 2002 by Will CPT

Will, you are probably right in saying that 'my' version is older, as I learnt it from one of the Shetland Fiddling CDs in the BBC Scottish Tradition series, where it is played unnaccompanied in a traditional Shetland style.

Thanks for the traanslation, Jenny.

# Posted on April 17th 2002 by granama

Solas has a penchant for snazzing tunes up from their "simpler" origins. Most of the time, I like what they bring to the tune, but often it's nice to know both the older (I want to say "more traditional" but I don't really want to start another one of those debates setting and Solas's setting. The Antrim Rose (also on the "Solas" cd) is another good example of this.

# Posted on April 17th 2002 by Will CPT

Actually, I meant the Rose of Antrim, a different reel altogether than the Antrim Rose that's on the "Solas" cd.

If anyone's interested, I also have the notes for Timmy Clifford's (The Return Home is already in the tune archives here). Let me know.

# Posted on April 17th 2002 by Will CPT

Timmy Clifford's

Hi Will,

thanks for the help with the other tunes of this Solas set. I've found an abc fot timmy clifford's, but if you've written down the solas version , that would be intersting as well.
I personally think it makes sense with some tunes to have have several versions stored here, might be intersting to learn about different styles also.

Urs

# Posted on April 21st 2002 by swisspiper

Oo't Be Est Da Vong

Fiddlers' Bid's version is very close to what Solas recorded. The first part goes like this:
B|A2AF ABde|f2fd edBd|A2AF ABde|fafe d2d:|
Of course, the ending of the second part is the same as that of the first one.

Interestingly enough, old Scottish song "A Cur Nan Gobhar as a' Chreig (Herding the Goats from the Rocks)" shares the almost identical first part with this Shetland tune. Irish reel Fisherman's Lilt has the somewhat similar first part though it's in C major.

This is one of my all-time favourite tunes. Easy but sounds nice on the flute or whistle.

# Posted on June 26th 2004 by slainte

O'ot Be Est Da Vong

This tune appears as "The Kilt is My Delight" on the latest album of Scottish group Keep It Up. It seems a variant of the melody taken from puirt a beul "A Cur Nan Gobhar as a'Chreig," which I mentioned in the previous comment: the song has the line "Little Kilt is My Delight." I don't know if this melody originated in Shetland or Scottish mainland.

# Posted on October 24th 2004 by slainte

Oot Be Est Da Vong

This tune is known in our household as "The Ikea Reel".
My SO suggests that it might make a nice set with "Rolling in the Ryegrass".

# Posted on September 22nd 2007 by Guernsey Pete