Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on December 7th 2002 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 21 tunebooks.
Also known as The Little Burnt Potato.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Little Burnt Potato
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:a^ga bag|afd A2d|f2a g2f|e3 Bcd|e2f e2d|
cAc a2a|1 a^ga ba=g|f3 fg^g:|2 a^ga b2c|d3 a2g||
|:f2A f2A|f3 f2e|dcd agf|g3 gef|gba gfe|
dcB A3|1 a^ga ba=g|f3 a2g:|2 a^ga b2c|d3 d3||
A cheerful jig from the New England Fiddler's Repertoire. Haven't come across it elsewhere.
# Posted on December 7th 2002 by lazyhound
This is another one I learnt at school but in G rather than D - I haven't heard/seen/played it in 10 years. It looks to be from Nova Scotia, composed by Collin J. Boyd. For more details, see http://cjtm.icaap.org/content/15/v15art7.html
# Posted on December 7th 2002 by Dow
Little Burnt Potato
I wouldn't regard this as a jig but as two-step.
Its popular with the border players.
Noel Jackson
Angels of the North
# Posted on December 8th 2002 by noelbats
crickey the version i play is quite drastically different, play it for english ceilidh dances
# Posted on December 11th 2002 by szifty
Wrong Note? Little Burnt Potato
I have a question about this tune. I have a copy from the Fiddler's Fakebook and I looked it up here and there is a
note in both that I think is wrong.
If you look at the first 6 notes in the first bar, and the first 6 notes in the first endings of A and B, they are almost identical. In the
2 endings, they make second G# into a G natural but they don't do this in the first bar. Is this right?
Janice
# Posted on February 14th 2005 by fiddleshaman
Pretty normal in trad tunes, especially Irish. (A very experienced player even once told me that in Irish traditional music, the old style was to play it going up as a sharp and going down as a natural, or maybe it was the other way round, can't remember at this point.) Don't know or play this tune, but it sounds right to my ear.
# Posted on February 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
Janice, the difference is in what note the g resolves to. In the first two bars, it resolves back to "a" and so it stays sharp (echoing the sound you get in A major). In the ending phrase, it resolves down to "f" and so shades back into D major--which favors g natural.
This sort of thing is quite common in tunes across many trad or folk genres.
# Posted on February 14th 2005 by Will CPT
"The Little Burnt Potato" ~ by Colin Boyd, Irish-Canadian
In G for Dow, with a few other differences and even a 'skip'...
K: G Major
B=c^c |
dcd edc | dBG D2 G | B2 d =c2 B | A E2- EFG |
A2 B A2 G | FDF d3 |1 dcd ed=c | B3- :|
2 dcd edF | G3- Gd=c ||
B2 D BDD | B3- B2 A | GAB dcB | =c3- cAB |
=ced cBA | GFE D2 ^c |1 d^cd ed=c | B3- Bd=c :|
2 d^cd ed=F | G3 ||
Canadian Journal for Traditional Music:
http://cjtm.icaap.org/
http://cjtm.icaap.org/content/15/v15art7.html
"This tune was composed by Colin Boyd and used by Don Messer. It is an old-time tune in that it was composed in Canada, but a commercial old-time tune in that it was marketed through the media. Boyd was Irish and a number of Irish characteristics are evident."
# Posted on November 23rd 2005 by ceolachan
Not forgeting Trevor's source: "The New England Fiddler's Repertoire"
Randy Miller & Jack Perron, 1983:
http://www.randymillerprints.com/
http://www.randymillerprints.com/fiddletunebooks.htm
& there's even a new reivsed 20th Anniversary editions ~ 2003
# Posted on November 23rd 2005 by ceolachan
"The Little Burnt Potato" ~ corrected transcript
Damn, that was before I 'keyed' it and I was using = & ^ and hadn't cleaned it up before submission, apologies, I'm doing three things simultaneously here at the minute, including cooking... Here it is corrected and cleared of the unnecessary extras and hopefully alright this time:
K: G Major
Bc^c |
d^cd edc | dBG D2 G | B2 d c2 B | A E2- EFG |
A2 B A2 G | FDF d3 |1 d^cd ed=c | B3- :|
2 d^cd edF | G3- Gdc ||
B2 D BDD | B3- B2 A | GAB dcB | c3- cAB |
ced cBA | GFE D2 ^c |1 d^cd ed=c | B3- Bdc :|
2 d^cd edF | G3 ||
# Posted on November 23rd 2005 by ceolachan
To Jig or not to Jig, is that a question?
I understand Noelbats feeling about this one, it feels like a quickstep to me too, however, in North America it is usually found in jig sets and used for contra and square dancing...
# Posted on November 23rd 2005 by ceolachan