Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Dancing The Baby

barndance

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on October 28th 2002 by lazyhound.

This tune has been added to 36 tunebooks.

Also known as Rocking The Baby.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Harpbreakers by Sileas
How Are We Getting Home? by Gaelic Storm
If Anyone Can! by Leo McCann
Irish Traditional Pipe Music by Finbar Furey
One At A Time by John Skelton
Quiet Days by Battlefield Band
Revenge Is Sweet by Molly's Revenge
The Dawning Of The Day by Finbar And Eddie Furey
The Pipers' Gathering 2005 by Various Artists

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

X: 1
T: Dancing The Baby
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Dmaj
FA/2A/2 GA/2A/2 FA/2A/2 G/2F/2E|FA/2A/2 GA/2A/2 DD/2E/2 F/2E/2D|
FA/2A/2 GA/2A/2 FA/2A/2 G/2F/2E|DD/2F/2 EE/2E/2 DD/2D/2 DD/2D/2:|
|:dF/2F/2 AF/2F/2 dF/2F/2 G/2F/2E|dF/2F/2 AF/2F/2 DD/2E/2 F/2E/2D|
dF/2F/2 AF/2F/2 dF/2F/2 G/2F/2E|DD/2F/2 EE/2E/2 DD/2D/2 DD/2D/2:|
|:fa/2a/2 ga/2a/2 fa/2a/2 g/2f/2e|fa/2a/2 g/2b/2a/2g/2 f/2e/2d c/2A/2A|
fa/2a/2 ga/2a/2 fa/2a/2 g/2f/2e|df/2d/2 e/2c/2A d/2d/2d d/2d/2d:||

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Dancing the Baby

Found this in O'Neill, but you won't find it in all editions. I have no further information about its origins. Although it's a Barndance, and it's most effective played that way, it can also be played as a 3-part jig.
"Dancing the Baby" is one of the few tunes in my opinion which has a title relevant to the character of the tune ("Over the Ocean" is another one). Never heard it played in a session, although I did play it once, to a respectful silence :-)
If nothing else it's not a bad bowing exercise for the fiddler - note the little trap in the 3rd bar of the 3rd part.

# Posted on October 28th 2002 by lazyhound

Sorry, I should have said the trap is in the 2nd beat of the 2nd bar of the 3rd part! I misread my ABC printout.

# Posted on October 29th 2002 by lazyhound

This is the polka setting.

# Posted on October 29th 2002 by SPeak

Dancing The Baby

Here's another version from Hedgehog Pie

|:Bddd cddd|BddB cB A2|Bddd cddB|(3GGG GA BA G2|
Bddd cddd|BddB cB A2|G2 GB AGAB|1G2 GFG G2 GA:|2G2 GF G2 de||:
gdBd edBd|gdBd cBAd|gdBd edBA|GABc defd|
gdBd edBd|gdBd cBAB|(3GGG GB AGAB|1G2 GF G2 de:|2G2 GF G2 GA||:
Bddd cddd|BddB AG F2|BddB cedc| BA G2 FE D2|
Bddd cddd|BddB AG F2|(3GGG GB AGAB|1G2 GF G2GA:|2G2 GF G2 de||:
gdBd edBd|gdBd cBAd|gdBd edBB|B2_B2 A4|
gdBd edBd|gdBd cBAB|(3GGG GB AGAB|1G2 GF G2de:|2G2 FG G2GA||

# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd

On One At A Time John Sketon reckons it is a Scottish tune in origin. He has heard it played as a reel by Shetland fiddlers and as a pipe jig. He plays it as a flute reel.

# Posted on December 31st 2004 by No Cause For Alarm