Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on April 5th 2004 by Aidan Crossey.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as Bolen's Fancy, The Boy In His Pants, The Pullet Wants A Cock.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Pullet That Wants The Cock, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmix
|:E/F/G|A3 B3|cBc E2D|E>FG E>FG|E/F/GA G>ED|
E2A A2B|c>Bc E2d|^c2A B>AG|1 F2D D:|2 F2D D2||
|:g|f>ed d2g|f>ed d2g|f>ed e2d|^c>AA A2g|
f>ga e>fg|f/g/fe d>^cA|G>AG E>FG|1 F2D D2:|2 F2D D3||
The Pullet That Wants The Cock
I came across this quirky, addictive jig on Céide's "Like A Wild Thing" album. It's played slowly - i.e. *slowly* - and steadily by John McHugh, the band's fiddler at the start of the album's last set (which also comprises The Night Before Larry Was Stretched and The Islay Rant). The sleeve notes have this to say about the tune ... "John learned the first jig from Paddy Moran, a fine fiddle player from near Crossmolina, Co. Mayo. According to Paddy, this tune was composed by a piper (who wishes to remain anonymous) at a wedding in the locality. During the wedding, food became scarce and so one of the kitchen girls was sent out to kill a hen. The girl mistakenly killed the only cock in the farmyard (Larry!) instead of the hen. During a lull in the proceedings, the piper went outside for a breath of air. He composed the tune after listening to the sad lament of the pullet at the loss of the cock."
# Posted on April 5th 2004 by Aidan Crossey
Joe Keegan`s jig
Sean McGuire and Roger Sherlock recorded this about 1970.They got it from Josie Keegan who played on that recording, who got it from her father.Sean thought of the rude name-Probably...
Leo Ginley told me he had a version of it called `The boy in his britches`.
# Posted on April 6th 2004 by cos
Thanks Cos
Josephine emailed me a while back to say that she's compiling a book of her lifetime's favourite tunes (trad, her own and some by other composers that she's met along the way). Maybe this will appear ... and maybe under a title that gives less cause for behind-the-bikesheds sniggering ...
# Posted on April 6th 2004 by Aidan Crossey
Josie is a great musician!
I knew her years ago and would give my right arm to be able to play the fiddle like that woman! I look forward to her book.
# Posted on April 6th 2004 by cos
"The Boy in His Pants" ~ another way with it
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on April 20th 2004 by gian marco.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2855
# Posted on December 12th 2005 by ceolachan
This 'other way' is also D Mixolydian rather than D Major as cut and pasted above...
# Posted on December 12th 2005 by ceolachan