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The Little Man With The Brown Shoes

reel

Key signature: Adorian

Submitted on January 24th 2010 by Kenny.

This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Little Man With The Brown Shoes, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
A2 ef edBd | g2 ga (3gfe dB | G2 DE GBdB | AdBA GBAG |
A2 ef edBd | g2 ga g2 gf | edBd g2 ga |1 gedB BedB :|2 gedB GABd ||
eaag abag | ed (3Bcd edgd | (3Bcd BA G2 (3Bcd | edgd ed (3Bcd |
eaag abag | efge d2 (3Bcd | edgd dBed | BG (3Bcd ed (3Bcd :|

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The Little Man With The Brown Shoes sheetmusic
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A great reel....

There was some recent discussion about the trio "Trian" and their 2 recordings. This is the very first tune on "Trian 2", and hadn't been posted yet. The sleeve notes say :
"The first reel, "The Little Man With The Brown Shoes", is a composition of Billy [McComiskie]'s. He wrote it in 1984 for his son, Patrick, who had just gotten his first pair of "grown-up" brown shoes.
A fine reel this, by any standards.
I can't take credit for the transcription, which is yet another gratefully received from Malcolm Reavell, flute and sax player from Aberdeen.

# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Kenny

Asher Perkins

Here's a clip of Finvarra's Wren playing the tune. I think they take the endings a bit different than the transcription. Asher would have learned the tune from either from that same album or direct from Billy or Sean McComiskey,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhAp2KL1YZg

# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Nico

Small correction

BTW, on Trian II it sounds like the end the B part like this: | edge dBed | BG (3Bcd ed Bd :|

# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Nico

Thanks

Great tune, thanks for this one, Kenny.

# Posted on February 1st 2010 by Henk Bos

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