Comb Your Hair And Curl It

slip jig

Key signature: Edorian

Submitted on October 11th 2002 by EldKatt.

This tune has been added to 176 tunebooks.

Also known as I'll Comb My Hair And Curl It.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• ...Born For Sport by Paul O'Shaughnessy And Harry Bradley
• 25th Anniversary Celebration by Altan
• A Celtic Fair by Maggie Sansone
• Between Up And Down by Ado Barker And Ruairi McGorman
• Chicago Reel by Chicago Reel
• Comb Your Hair And Curl It by Catherine McEvoy, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh
• First Through The Gate by Brian Conway
• Five After Four by Tim Hart
• Happy To Meet Sorry To Part by Horslips
• Hills And Hollows by Mary And Josie Nugent
• Idir by At First Light
• Inné Amarach by Teada
• Kids In A Candy Store by Rick May And Gil Yslas
• Memories Of Sligo by Roger Sherlock
• Music From The Glens by The Quinn Family
• Return To Droim by Colm Gannon
• The Blue Idol by Altan
• The Chieftains 1 by The Chieftains
• The Dusty Miller by Conor, Gay And Seán McKeon
• The Green House by Grey Larsen And Paddy League
• The Irish Concertina Two by Noel Hill
• Travelling Show by Dervish
• Two Year Winter by Bill Jones
• Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 2, Disc 2 by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Comb Your Hair And Curl It
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Edor
|:B2E E2F G2A | Bcd e2c d3
| B2E E2F G2A | ~B3 ABG FED:|
|:g2e e2d efg | f2d d2c def
| g2e e2d e2c | dcB AGF G2E :|

Comb your hair and curl it

I believe this tune was on the very first album of The Chieftains, roundabout the late sixties. I don

# Posted on October 12th 2002 by murfbox

C flat

My ear and other ABC-verions tells me that the C in the 4th bar should be C-flat.

# Posted on October 14th 2002 by lars

Lars:

I wrote down the ABC rather quickly without much checking, and I must've missed that one. I agree that a C-flat sounds better. Personally I usually just play a long roll on this note though.

# Posted on February 26th 2003 by EldKatt

C flat??

I'm guessing you mean c natural--?

# Posted on May 3rd 2003 by pchaffee

C-flat is a B-natural... I do think you'd mean C-Natural... which, on flute and whistle, is an oxymoron... considering the C-Sharp is a natural fingering and the C-natural is a cross (unless you play boehm flute, but that's another story...)

# Posted on October 30th 2003 by Oranaiche

Abnormal timing to a slip jig

Jean Carignan of Montreal, PQ, Canada recorded this tune with a variant of the Fox Chase or Fox Hunters Slip Jig. He plays both pieces with 4/4 timing. This can be found on Michael Colemans versions also...

# Posted on May 16th 2004 by k4hx1

Not to split hairs, but that's probably b/c it really is a hop jig.

http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/2748/

# Posted on May 28th 2004 by emily_bmore

Hop Jig

It sounds like Harry Bradley playing this tune almost in 6/8.

M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: hop jig
K: Edor
BE EF GA|(3Bcd ec d2|BE EF GA|(3BcB AG FD:|
ge ed eg|fd dc d2|ge ed ec|(3BcB AG FD:|

I think we should play it in 9/8 when we're slowing down.

Here's another setting based on Grey Larsen's whistle playing:

M: 9/8
K: Edor
B2E E2F G2A|B2e ece dBA|B2E E2F G2A|B=cB A2G FED:|
g2e efe e2f|~g3 efg afd|g2e efe e2c|d2B ABG FED:|

# Posted on March 14th 2005 by slainte

By 6/8 I think you mean 3/4

In the Harry Bradley version above, I think you mean 3/4, not 6/8. Your transcription pairs eighth notes together, which makes sense musically. But I think 6/8 implies three eighth note groupings. Obviously a player would figure this out, and it looks fairly obvious on the page. Just being a little picky. Sorry.

# Posted on February 23rd 2007 by DuncanCameron

Another

I spent some time with this tune today and it came out something like this....

X:1
T:Comb Your Hair and Curl It
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:slip jig
K:D
|: B2E E2F G2A | Bcd edc d2c |
B2E E2F G2A | ~B2d AGF GFE :|
| g2e e2d efg | f2d d2c def |
| g2e e2B d2B | dBA AGF GFE |
| g2e e2d efg | f2d d2c def |
| g2e edc d2B | ABA AGF GFE |

# Posted on August 19th 2007 by The Merry Highlander

Altan

Now I know where I got my version... Altan... here is more how it should be:

X:1
T:Comb Your Hair and Curl It
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:slip jig
K:D
|: B2E E2F G2A | Bcd edc d2c |
B2E E2F G2A | BdB AGF GFE :|
| g2e e2d efg | f2d d2c def |
| g2e e2d edc | d2B AGF GFE |
| g2e e2d eag | f2d d2c def |
| g2e e2d edc | d2B AGF GFE |

# Posted on September 11th 2007 by The Merry Highlander

Altan

i heard this at ana ltan gig
good tune

# Posted on October 29th 2007 by frafyduck

can i just point out tht all the c-flat/ natural stuff at th top of the page is sooo annoying. ok so someone got it wrong, its not a c flat as thts a b sharp or something but to some of us note names mean v little anyway so sooorrrrryyyy if we get it slightly wrong once in a while. u all knew what was meant anyway

# Posted on September 24th 2008 by frafyduck

http://www.soundlantern.com/UpdatedSoundPage.do?ToId=23189

The second tune of the set, played as a hop jig as Coleman recorded it.

# Posted on November 30th 2008 by B Rad

Here's another hop jig setting, similar to the Harry Bradley version above, and also played here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SJ3XrFJSqg) by Tommasso Tornielli on flute.

X: 1
T: Comb Your Hair and Curl It
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Edor
BEE FGA|B2 dc d2|BEE FGA|B/d/B AF GE|
BEE FGA|B2 dc dA|BEE FGA|B/d/B AF GE||
gee deg|fdd cde|gee ded|B/c/d AF GE|
gee deg|fdd cde|ge df ed|B/c/d AF GE||

# Posted on December 6th 2009 by Will Harmon

ooops--typo. Second to last measure should be: |ge fd ed|

# Posted on December 6th 2009 by Will Harmon

Harry Bradley got the hop jig setting of this tune straight from Michael Coleman's recording. It's quite possible that other hop jig settings also come from Michael Coleman, both directly or indirectly.

# Posted on December 7th 2009 by slainte

Altan version

Here's how I hear it on Altan, just a few changes from merry highlanders, thanks merry:

X:1
T:Comb Your Hair and Curl It
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:slip jig
K:D
|: B2E E2F G2A | Bcd edc d2c |
B2E E2F G2A | B=cB AGF G2E :|
| g2e e2d efg | f2d d2c def |
| g2e e2d e2c | d2B AGF G2E |
| g2e e2d efg | f2d d2c def |
| g2e e2d e2c | d2B AGF GFE |

# Posted on April 17th 2011 by image2frame