Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on March 7th 2003 by gian marco.
This tune has been added to 43 tunebooks.
Also known as Lasses Gar Your Tails Toddle, Lasses Gar Your Tails Todle, Lasses Make Your Tails Toddle, Lasses Make Your Tails Todle, Little Wot Ye Wha's Coming, Tail Toddle, Tail Todle.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Tail Toddle, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:d2fd g2fe|d2fd e2cA|d2fd g2fe|fgaf e2cA:|
|:g2dB B2dB|g2dB e2cA|g2dB B2dB|A2af e2cA:|
I love this tune. It's my favourite scottish reel. For me who wrote it is a genius.
# Posted on March 7th 2003 by gian marco
Tail Toddle
"Tail Toddle, tail toddle, Tammy gars ma tail toddle,
But 'n ben ' n diddle daddle, Tammy gars ma tail toddle"
It's from a song about.... well, use your imagination !
# Posted on March 7th 2003 by Kenny
TailToddle- coincidence
The day before you posted this, Gian Marco, Archie Fisher,the presenter of Radio Scotland's "Travelling Folk" programme played the song of the tune from a newly-released CD in memory of Tony Cuffe, and it's as good a piece of Scottish traditional music as I've ever heard. Archie said that the glossary of words translated from Scots into English is almost as long as the song itself. The CD is on the "Greentrax" label and is called "Sae Will We Yet", I think you might like it. The programme can be heard on the internet for the next 5 days. You might like to check it out , and I'd be interested to know what you think, if you do.
# Posted on March 8th 2003 by Kenny
Tail Toddle at Radio Scotland
Goooood!!! Thanks Kenny!
# Posted on March 8th 2003 by gian marco
Tail Toddle
This i think is the basis of Sean Sa Cheo played by and attributed to Neillie Boyle late Donegal fiddler.Claiming to compose trad music is an oxymoron?
# Posted on March 11th 2003 by cruiser
I've heard this one in my session recently. I quite like it.
# Posted on June 18th 2006 by Dow
"Whistle Ower The Lave O't" ~ sometimes caught up in the name game
Key signature: A Major
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2051
# Posted on October 22nd 2006 by ceolachan
"Lasses Gar Your Tails Todle" / "Tail Toddle" ~ James Aird 1782
James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs, Vol. II, Glasgow, 1782
K: G Major
|: G/G/G BG c2 GE | G/G/G BG A2 FD | G/G/G BG cABG | A/B/c B/c/d A2 FD :|
|: c2 GE EcGE | c2 GE DAFD | c2 GE d/c/B/A/ BG | A/B/c B/c/d A2 FD :|
|: G/G/G BG cABE | G/G/G BG ADFD | G/G/G BG cABG | A/B/c B/c/d c2 AF :|
|: c2 Ec EcGE | c2 Ec DAFD | c2 Ec d/c/B/A/ BG | A/B/c B/c/d A2 FD :|
# Posted on October 22nd 2006 by ceolachan
"Tail Toddle"
CHORUS:
Tail toddle, tail toddle,
Tammy gars ma tail toddle
But and ben wi' diddle doddle
Tammy gars ma tail toddle
Oor guidwife held ow'r tae Fife
Fur tae buy a coal riddle
Lang e'er she cam' back again
Tammy gar ma tail toddle
~ Chorus ~
Jessie Mack gied a plaque
Helen Wallace gied a boddle
Quo the bride "it's ower little
fur tae mend a broken doddle"
~ Chorus ~
Twain, twain, made the bed,
Twain, twain, lay th'gither,
When the bed began to heat,
The yin lay in abin the tither
~ Chorus ~
Whan am deid am oot o' date,
When am seek am fu o trouble,
When am weel a stap aboot an'
Tammy gars ma tail toddle.
~ Chorus ~
# Posted on October 22nd 2006 by ceolachan
"Tail Todle" ~ from "The Merry Muses of Caledonia", 1799
CHORUS:
Tail todle, tail todle;
Tammie gart my tail todle;
At my ae wi' diddle doddle,
Tammie gart my tail todle.
1.) Our gudewife held o'er to Fife,
For tae buy a coal-riddle;
Lang or she came back again,
Tammie gart my tail todle.
~ Chorus ~
2.) When I'm deid I'm out o' date;
When I'm seik I'm fu' o' trouble;
When I'm weel I step about,
An' Tammie gars my tail todle.
~ Chorus ~
3.) Jenny Jack she gae a plack,
Helen Wallace gae a boddle;
Quo' the bride, its o'er little
For tae mend a broken doddle.
~ Chorus ~
# Posted on October 22nd 2006 by ceolachan
"Lasses Gar Your Tails Todle" ~ ?
~ & a fragment from who knows where? ~ one of you may, and may even have the rest of the words?:
Lasses gar your Tails Todle,
Spread your houghs lat in the Dodle,
that will gar your Tails Todle.
# Posted on October 22nd 2006 by ceolachan
"Ghillie Callum" / "Tail Todle" / "Sword Dance" ~ & correction
Submitted on December 26th 2003 by tradivarium.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2305
Both of these two airs have been associated with the song and the Sword Dance...
CORRECTION: The link to "Whistle" above was a mistake on my part, a 'confusion' late at night (a.m.) under the influence of too many Strathspeys and associated Scottish intoxicants...
# Posted on October 24th 2006 by ceolachan
Tail Toddle
This appears under the title of "Little Wot Ye Wha's Coming" in the Northumbrian minstrelsy. This 4-part setting is similar to the James Aird setting above but is in a different key:
X: 68
T: Little Wot ye Wha's Coming
S: Northumbrian Minstrelsy
M: C
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
d/d/d fd "tr"g2 dB|d/d/d fd "tr"e2cA|d/d/d fd gefd|e/f/g f/g/a "tr"e2cA:|
|:"tr"g2dB Bgec|"tr"g2dB AecA|"tr"g2dB BgdB|e/f/g f/g/a "tr"e2cA:|
|:d/d/d fd gefB|d/d/d fB eAcA|d/d/d fd gefd|e/f/g/e/ f/g/a/f/ "tr"e2cA:|
|:g2Bg BgdB|g2Bg BgcA|g2Bg a/g/f/e/ fd|e/f/g/e/ f/g/a/f/ "tr"e2eA:|
# Posted on November 27th 2006 by Dow
Chords to Tail Toddle
| D Dsus | D A | D Dsus | D A :|
|: G |G A | G | A :|
# Posted on January 16th 2008 by gian marco