Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 17th 2003 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 160 tunebooks.
Also known as Gerry On The Bridge, Jennie's Wedding, New Christmas Eve.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Jenny's Wedding
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
D2 (3FED AD (3FED|Adde fded|cAAB =c3d|eaag edcA|
D2FA dfed|cAAB cdeg|fdec d2cA|(3Bcd AG FDD2:|
d2fd Adfd|cAAB cdec|d2fd Adfd|(3Bcd eg fddA|
d2fd Adfd|(3Bcd ef g2fg|afge d2cA|(3Bcd AG FDD2|
d2fd adfd|ecAB cdec|d2fd adfd|eaag fddA|
d2fd adfd|(3Bcd ef g2fg|afge d2cA|(3Bcd AG FDD2||
The title of this tune presumably refers to what happened to the eponymous lady herself after she met Charlie. This is one of the first reels I was taught after I had learnt that technically easier group of polkas that beginners are often taught in my area. We play it in sessions occasionally. The version I was taught, and which is posted, is more or less that listed in Henrik Norbeck's collection. It's also one of those tunes where you've got to listen for a few bars before joining in because the start is similar to tunes such as College Groves, Farewell to Erin, Nine Points of Roguery, and probably one or two others.
A variation from Norbeck is as follows:
(3DDD FD ADFD|Acde fded|cAAB =c2=cd|eaag edd_d|
(3DDD FA defd|cAAB cdeg|fdec d2cA|BdcA FDDz:|
|:d2fd a2fd|ecAB cdec|d2fd a2fd|cdeg fdd2|
d2fd a2fd|cdef g2fg|(3agf ge fdec|dfeg fddz:||
trevor
# Posted on January 17th 2003 by lazyhound
The c nat in the 3rd bar of the A part is a good place for a roll.
trevor
# Posted on January 18th 2003 by lazyhound
Wasn't somebody saying something about "Jenny" being a representation of Scotland? Who was that?
Zina
# Posted on January 18th 2003 by Zina Lee
I know of 15 tunes with "Jenny" or "Jennie" in the title. Several of them seem to have Scottish origins, including at least some of the 4 or 5 popular session ones. The idea of "Jenny" representing Scotland makes sense. There is one "Jenny" tune , though, which I believe is probably of Welsh origin.
trevor
# Posted on January 18th 2003 by lazyhound
I always confuse tha B part of Jenny's Wedding with the B of Lilies in the Field.
# Posted on March 3rd 2005 by gian marco
Me too. I also mix up the second part of the two tunes with that of Miss Girdle: http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2417
# Posted on March 3rd 2005 by slainte
Jenny's Wedding
Classic old recording of this tune here..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5eG8ozCmyg
# Posted on June 12th 2009 by conscientious objector
Jenny's Wedding
The last tune played here by Eric, Hugh, Colm Healy, Noel O'Donoghue and Seán McGrath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWGQ5NNcaCw
# Posted on July 9th 2009 by conscientious objector
The set is on Colm and Hugh's recording.
# Posted on July 9th 2009 by slainte