The Steamboat

jig

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on November 4th 2002 by lazyhound.

This tune has been added to 21 tunebooks.

Also known as The Steamboat March, Steamboat Quickstep, The Steamboat Quickstep, Uncle Jim's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Blackthorn Ceilidh Band by Blackthorn Ceilidh Band
• English Fiddle Tunes by Pete Cooper
• Geantrai - Live Session Recordings From The TV Series by Various Artists
• New England Chestnuts Vol. 2 by Rodney Miller, Randy Miller And Friends
• New England Chestnuts Volumes 1 and 2: Classic New England Contra Music by Various Artists
• Proper Job: Melodeon Playing From Dartmoor by Bob Cann
• Rig-a-jig-jig: Dance Music Of The South Of England by Various Artists
• The First Harvest by Iain MacDonald And Iain MacFarlane
• The West Of Ireland by Boys Of The Lough
• West Country Melodeon by Bob Cann

X: 1
T: Steamboat, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Amaj
a2e c2A|Ace a2e|agf edc|Bed cBA|
a2e c2A|Ace a2e|agf edc|BcB A3:|
|:Ace ece|efe cBA|Ade f2f|fga e3|
Ace ece|efe cBA|agf edc|BcB A3:||

Found this lively jig in an old collection of New England fiddle music.
-m

# Posted on November 4th 2002 by lazyhound

This tune is played as a standard 6/8 march for pipe bands in the Royal Scottish Band Association tutor book volume one.

# Posted on February 20th 2003 by Atanos

1083 ~ "New England Fiddler's Repertoire"

Randy Miller & Jack Perron

Page 21: "Steamboat Quickstep"

http://www.randymillerprints.com/
http://www.randymillerprints.com/fiddletunebooks.htm

2003 Second Edition: "168 classic traditional contra dance melodies, from Batchelder's Reel to Money Musk to Portland Fancy and beyond -- the standard contra tunes in one source. The second edition of NEFR is produced with assistance from the Gadd/Merrill Fund of the Country Dance and Song Society. Edited by Robert Bley-Vroman and Randy Miller; introduction by Newt Tolman."

~ also their publication:
"Irish Traditional Fiddle Music"

# Posted on November 26th 2005 by ceolachan

Go here for another transcription of this tune, and a discussion of the popular Dmaj Irish version + links http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/947

# Posted on April 3rd 2008 by Dow