Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 10th 2003 by sven.
This tune has been added to 159 tunebooks.
Also known as Jenny's Pancakes, Maggies Pancakes, The Rainbow Tune.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Maggie's Pancakes
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
fBB2 fgfe|dBAB GBdB|cAAd AAec|afdB ecAc|
dBB2 fgfe|dBAB GBdB|cAdc ecA2|afec B4:|
f2dB GBdB|caec dBB2|f2dB GBdB|caec Bcde|
fdd2 fgfe|dBAB GBdB|cAdA eAA2|afec B4:|
Another name
I saw this posted in Richard Moon's Tune db on woodenflute.com as "Maggie's Pancakes". It's a crazy tune
yay.
# Posted on January 10th 2003 by Sa'rah
Origins
The original name for this tune was "Maggie's Pancakes". The correct mode for it is B minor. It's a Scottish tune composed by fiddler Stuart Morison of the Tannahill Weavers. The Maggie in the title is Maggie Moore who makes nice pancakes. I've sometimes heard this played at sessions in Australia, but I'm sure out of all the places in the world, it is most often played in Cambridge, UK. At some point the Tannahill Weavers played there live, and the tune must have been passed on to the local session players by the band members. Now it has become standard session fodder there and gets played every week.
# Posted on January 11th 2003 by Dow
Maggie's pancakes
Since the name given to this tune by it's composer Stuart Morrison is indeed "Maggie's Pancakes", I think it should be listed as such, and "also known as" "The Rainbow Tune". It was one of his first compositions, and has been recorded many times, including by an Australian pipe band.
# Posted on January 13th 2003 by Kenny
Cambridge setting
We used to play quite a funky setting of this in Cambridge:
K: Bmin
fB~B2 fgfe|dBAB GBdB|cAAd AAeA|Aaec Aceg|
fB~B2 fgfe|dBAB GBdB|cABc def^g|afec B3e:|
|:f2dB GBdB|caec dB~B2|f2dB GBdB|caec Bcde|
fd~d2 fgfe|dBAB GBdB|cABc def^g|afec B3e:|
I'm not so sure I like that final ascending run. I might be more inclined to stick to:
|cAdA eAA^g|afec B3...
# Posted on September 17th 2003 by Dow
Some more versions
I found this on the Fiddler's Companion. I haven't got the recording but maybe this is closer to the original. It certainly flows nicely:
X:1
T: Maggie's Pancakes
M: 2/2
L: 1/8
R: Reel
C: Stuart Morrison
D: Tannahill Weavers, "Dancing Feet"
K: Bm
fB~B2 fgfe|dB~B2 GBdB|cAAd AAec|AfdB ecAe|
fB~B2 fgfe|dB~B2 GBdB|cABc ABce|afec B2de:|
|:~f2dB GBdB|caec dB~B2|~f2dB GBdB|caec Bcde|
fd~d2 fgfe|dB~B2 GBdB|cAdA eAce|afec B2de:|
I find the syncopation in the 3rd bar a bit too much, so if I were playing this setting I'd probably go:
fB~B2 fgfe|dB~B2 GBdB|cA~A2 dAec|AfdB ecAe|...
or:
fB~B2 fgfe|dB~B2 GBdB|cA~A2 dAec|AfdB eAce|...
or:
fB~B2 fgfe|dB~B2 GBdB|cA~A2 dAeA|afdB eAce|...
# Posted on January 13th 2005 by Dow
minor variations for the first two bars:
fBde fgfe|dBdB GBdB|
fBde fgfe|dBAB GBdB|
# Posted on February 7th 2006 by Q
The Rainbow Tune ???
Does anyone have any idea when or why the tune got called this ??
# Posted on December 16th 2006 by smorison
More on Origins
For the record, the tune was written on the same day as Live Aid !
# Posted on December 16th 2006 by smorison
Cambridge connection
Katriona MacDonald taught this tune at, possibly, the 98 shetland Fiddle School' at Burwell House, Burwell, near Cambridge. Quite a few of the students were local, Her version is slilghtly more funky than the one shown but great fun to play
# Posted on January 31st 2007 by tcfiddle
Eliot Grasso
Second tune on 'Standing Room Only' - The Sandpiper is surely a cousin of Maggie's.
# Posted on February 17th 2007 by stew
"Mary's Pancakes" = "Maggie's Pancakes" ~ a rescued duplication
Key signature: b minor
Submitted on October 7th 2007 by voodoo.
~ /tunes/display/7832
X: 4
T: Mary's Pancakes
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: b minor
|: de |
f ~B3 fgfe | d ~B3 GBdB | cAAd AAeA | AfAA edBc |
d ~B3 fgfe | d ~B3 GBdB | cAdA e ~a3 | afec B2 :|
|: de |
f2 dB GBdB | caec d ~B3 | f2 dB GBdB | efdA Bcde |
~f3 e fgfe | d ~B3 GBdB | cAdA e ~a3 | afec B2 :|
I learned this one on a workshop from another flute player. She said she knows it from a recording of a hungarian band for which I forgot the name.
# Posted on October 7th 2007 by voodoo
# Posted on October 7th 2007 by ceolachan
Triplets
Where would you put them in this?
# Posted on April 4th 2008 by ElliotI