Tickle Her Leg With The Barley Straw

jig

Key signature: Bminor

Submitted on July 23rd 2003 by daithic.

This tune has been added to 42 tunebooks.

Also known as Get Up Old Woman And Shake Yourself, Go To The Devil And Shake Yourself, If Sick, Is It Tea You Want?, Tickle Her Leg, Tickle Her Leg With A Barley Straw.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Around The World For Sport by The Doon Céilí Band
It's About Time by Allie Bennett
Journeyman by Gerry O'Connor
Light And Shade by Skylark
My Book Of Songs by Kathleen Collins
New Irish Harmonica by Brendan Power
Sharon Shannon by Sharon Shannon
Spellbound by Sharon Shannon
The Good Ear by Dougal Adams And Ormonde Waters
The Traditional Music Of Ireland by Seamus Egan
Tunes by Sharon Shannon, Frankie Gavin, Michael McGoldrick And Jim Murray
Velvet Arm Golden Hand by Joseph Cormier And J.P Cormier
Wooden Flute Obsession Disk 1 by Various Artists

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

X: 1
T: Tickle Her Leg With The Barley Straw
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Bmin
DFF FEF|D2B, B,CD|CEE EFD|~C3 A,B,C|
DCD EDE|FEF ded|BAF FEF|1 D2B, B,2C:|2 D2B, B,dB||
A2F FdB|A2F FdB|A2F FEF|D2B, B,dB|
A2F FdB|A2F FBc|dcB cBA|~B3 B2c|
dcB cBA|B2A FBc|dcB cBA|~B3 B2c|
dcB cBA|B2A F2E|FGA B2c|B3 d3||

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Tickle her leg with the barley straw

Great banjo tune, taken from Sharon Shannon's Spellbound album, goes well with Bundle and Go.

# Posted on July 23rd 2003 by daithic

Music in boston?

i am going to Boston soon .Are there any good session pubs in Boston?
Also do they like people joining in?

# Posted on July 27th 2003 by Jim Nash

Is a bear Polish? Does the Pope **** in the woods? Do a search in the Sessions section, Jim, you'll find plenty. As for joining in, read the comments carefully, it'll depend on how good *you* are and which session you choose to try to join.

Zina

# Posted on July 28th 2003 by Zina Lee

P.S.

And what does that have to do with Tickle Her Leg, exactly? ;)

# Posted on July 28th 2003 by Zina Lee

Stupid request

You might have noticed that I posted a request for 'Jeruselem' okay how stupid do i feel!? Not only did I spell it wrong, I was looking for Jerusalem Ridge in a hurry and never meant to post any request at all...now I can't get rid of it. So I'm not looking for a hymn but I am going to give up traditional music out of shame....

# Posted on July 29th 2003 by skippy

Skippy, don't take it to heart! The spelling mistakes (usually typos) on this site would keep a dictionary maker happy (or miserable) for years. Anyway, Jerusalem Ridge has already been submitted, and perhaps some kind person might write a tune called "Jeruselem" - what do you want, reel, jig, hornpipe, etc ?
Trevor

# Posted on July 29th 2003 by Trevor Jennings

Great transcription

That's a really good transcription of the tune as Sharon Shannon plays it, by the way. Simple things done well!

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by kris

Some little variants

I was just trying it out on the B/C accordion and discovered a couple of little variations you can use. There are a bunch of places where it goes EDE or F#EF#. Raising the middle note a half step to ED#E or F#FF# once in a while is nice. I imagine that on a fiddle, using a neutral tone somewhere between D and D# or between E and F would work, too. And the only G in the whole tune also seems to work as a G#.

# Posted on August 28th 2005 by GaryAMartin

Who else?

This is one of my favourite jigs - the first one I learnt well enough to play through coherently...

I learned it from Brendan Power and his album "New Irish Harmonica" - I was most surprised (forgive my ignorance, please) to come across it on one of SS's albums. I like the way both of them play it and I'm going to incorporate some of the fun variations she uses.

# Posted on April 8th 2006 by Brown Creeper

Tickle Her Leg with the Barley Straw

It's usually played in Edor, and called "Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1937

# Posted on April 8th 2006 by slainte

There's a slide version here too http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5088

# Posted on October 23rd 2007 by Dr. Dow

Tunes version

The version of the tune played on the *Tunes* album, to my ear, sounds more like this (on an F whistle) --

T: Tickle Her Leg
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Bmin
F2B BAF | A2A AFE | F2B BAF | Ade fdB |
F2B BAF | A3 ABc | def e2c |1 B3 AFE :|2 B3 Bde ||
f2b baf | a3 afe | f2b baf | a3 afe |
f2b baf | e3 eBc | def e2c |1 B3 Bde:|2 B3 AFE ||

Or, if you're more string or button-inclined:

K: Dmin
A2d dcA | c2c cAG | A2d dcA | cfg afd |
A2d dcA | c3 cde | fga g2e |1 d3 cAG :|2 d3 dfg ||
a2d' d'c'a | c'3 c'ag | a2d' d'c'a | c'3 c'ag |
a2d' d'c'a | g3 gde | fga g2e |1 d3 dfg:|2 d3 cAG ||

# Posted on April 18th 2009 by bdh

Tickle Her Leg

Here's how I hear it on that recording....

X:1
T: Tickle Her Leg
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Bmin
F2B BAF | A2A AFE | F2B BAF | Ade fdB |
F2B BAF | A3 ABc | def e2c |1 B3 B2A :|2 B3 Bde ||
f2b baf | a3 afe | f2b baf | a3 aba |
f2b baf | e3 ABc | def e2c |1 B3 Bde:|2 B3 ~B2A ||

# Posted on August 31st 2009 by bogman