The Lady On The Boat

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on December 17th 2002 by lazyhound.

This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.

Also known as The Bugle Horn March, The Bugle Horn, The Bugle March, The Bugle Quickstep, The Bugle, Fermanagh Quickstep, The Lady In The Boat.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Cairde Cairdín by Diarmuid O'Brien
• Music For Peace by Gary Hastings And Frankie Gavin
• Rolling Home by The Foundry Bar Band
• Slán Le Loch Eirne by Seamus Quinn And Gary Hastings

X: 1
T: Lady On The Boat, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
dfA d2A|dfA d2f|a2f fed|efe ecA|
dfA d2A|dfA d2f|a2f efe|d3 d2a:|
|:f3 gfg|a3 f2g|a2f fed|efe ecA|
f3 gfg|a3 f2g|agf gec|ded d3:||

Source: New England Fiddler's Repertoire

# Posted on December 17th 2002 by lazyhound

a colleciton compiled by Randy Miller and Jack Perron:

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

# Posted on November 20th 2005 by ceolachan

"The Lady on the Boat" / "The Bugle March" ~ G Major

K: G Major
|: D |
GBD G2 D | GBD G2 B | d2 B GAB | ABA AFD |
GBD G2 D | GBD G2 B | d2 B AGA | BGF G2 :|
|: A |
B3 cBc | d2 B d2 e | dcB BAG | BAA AGA |
BAB cBc | d2 ^c d2 e | dcB AGA | BGF G2 :|

And another way with the B-part:

|: A |
B3 cBc | d3 B2 c | dcB BAG | A3 ABc |
B3 cBc | d3 B2 c | dcB cAF | AGG G2 :|

# Posted on August 6th 2006 by ceolachan

Is that a transcription of the Glasgow City Police Pipe Band version or is it your own?

# Posted on August 7th 2006 by Dow

The transcription in G Major above isn't from the band's playing. It is just from memory and notes... We would have played it for dancers and dancing...

# Posted on August 7th 2006 by ceolachan

Right. So. Source = c's own memory. But can it be trusted, I wonder. Do you even trust it yourself, 'c'? What time did you put that chicken in the oven? Just think, someone will stumble upon your post in 200 years' time, and they'll go: 'I like it in G... oo, maybe I'll learn it off this abc. But who the hell is this "ceolachan"? And why are his abc headers so minimalist? No title header, no metre, no note length? He must have been a real lazy so-and-so...'

# Posted on August 7th 2006 by Dow

Using the versions above as an aid to memory, I have come up with this which I think must be close to the GCPPB recording.
K: G
D|:GBD G2D|GBD G2B| d2B GAB|ABA A2D|
GBD G2D|GBD G2B|d2B AGA|1 BGG G2D:|2 BGG G2A||
BAB cBc|~d3 B2d|dcB BAG|BAA AGA|BAB cBc|~d3 B2d|
dcB AGA|BGG G2A|BAB cBc|~d3 B2d|dcB BAG|
BAA A2D|GBD G2D|GBD G2B|d2B AGA| BGG G3||

# Posted on August 7th 2006 by LongNote

Thanks Longnote ~ at least another take in G, and equally minimalist to mine... I think it is way over time your trading in that blanket, those stains, well, I'd hate to see the results of a full investigation and analysis...

# Posted on August 7th 2006 by ceolachan

The 'analysis' mentioned above with regards to NB and the suspected source of the nickname... Yuck! I picture something that would stick if you threw it up against a wall...

# Posted on August 7th 2006 by ceolachan

'noxious blanket'

Note, for clarity, at the time of the above 'Dow' was calling himself by the alternate name of 'noxious blanket'...

# Posted on June 20th 2007 by ceolachan