Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on April 26th 2004 by Back for a while.
This tune has been added to 43 tunebooks.
Also known as Wings O' A Scorie, Wings O' A Skorie.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: On The Wings Of A Skorie
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emin
|:BE E/E/E BEcE|BE E/E/E GFGB|ABGB AGFA|GEED EFGA|
BE E/E/E BEcE|BE E/E/E GFGB|ABGB AGFA|1 GEED E2 GA:|2 GEED E2 GF||
|:EBBG AGFA|GEDE GABd|Beed efge|fedf eBgf|
eB B/B/B BAFA|GEDE GABd|fadf efdB|1 ABdf e2 BA:|2 ABdf e4||
At last, Slainte.
I promised Slainte that I would post this tune when I got round to learning ABC. It was written by the late Michel Ferrie from Fiddler's Bid. I prefer this tune played not too fast but , maybe, it's because I learned it that way. I've left the slurs and grace notes out so that they can be added according to taste.
"Michael Ferrie wrote this tune after watching the family's new kitten playing in the garden. The kitten bravely decided to tackle a large skorie (Herring Gull) and jumped on it's back. The skorie not much impressed, took flight with the kitten aboard. Luckily for the kitten it managed to escape but not until the bird had flown several hundred yards down the field." Notes from the album Da Farder Ben Da Welcomer" by Fiddler's Bid.
# Posted on April 26th 2004 by Back for a while
Apologies.
I had to make a couple of small amendments in the 2nd and 4th bar of the second part but the "sheet music" had already been added so it's slightly different. The actual ABC is the correct version.
John
# Posted on April 26th 2004 by Back for a while
Thanks, John. It sounds weird on the sound file, but it is a great tune. Deaf Shepherd also recorded it.
# Posted on April 27th 2004 by slainte
Weird or what?
I have a weird thing with this tune. I'm also called Michael Ferrie and it was written on my second birthday. The 15th of August 1995. Leo McCann taught me it at the Feis a few years back. Great tune.
# Posted on November 10th 2008 by mjaferrie
This was also covered by Skerryvore on their "On the road" CD. Lovely tune.
# Posted on November 24th 2008 by Twistytie