Key signature: Amixolydian
Submitted on May 16th 2004 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 61 tunebooks.
Also known as Donald Willie And His Dog, Donald, Willie, And His Dog, Donald, Willie, And The Dog.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Donald, Willie And His Dog
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Amix
A2c Acc B2A|A2c Acc B3|A2c Acc B2A|c2A ABG A3:|
B2e edc B2A|B2e edc B3|c2e edc B2A|c2A ABG A3:|
A2c ABB c2B|A2c Acc B3|A2c ABB c2B|c2A ABG A3:|
e2c dfd e2d|e2c d2c B3|e2c dfd e2d|c2A ABG A3:|
Donald Willie And His Dog
This is a quite well-known Scottish tune written by Donald Morrison from South Uist. I don't know anything about him, but it's easy to guess he's a piper.
My transcription here is based on Malcom Stitt's pipe playing on the album "Keep it Up." It's a lovely recording featuring very sweet concertina and fiddle duet playings of Simon Thoumire and Eilidh Shaw, but famous young bouzouki player Malcom plays highland pipes on some tracks.
It's fun to play fast, but it's also nice to play a bit slowly as a march as Malcom does.
# Posted on May 16th 2004 by slainte
Great tune
First heard his one from Jock Tamson's Bairns on the album "The Lasses Fashion" way back in 1982. It was one of the first tunes we were taught at SMOG in Edinburgh by Angus Grant Jnr. Blazing Fiddles' version is good too.
I like to play these two tunes together so I'll put it up here in the next day or so.
There's a nice tune called "My favourite Dram" . It's got a Gaelic title too but I'll have to check the spelling first.
John
# Posted on May 16th 2004 by Johannes J
Needs a comma.....
Trivial, but it makes all the difference. I heard that the tune was composed when Donald Morrison and his brother , Willie - also a piper - went out into the hills, with their dog, to look for a lost sheep. I never heard whether or not they found the sheep, but they came back having composed this tune - "Donald, Willie And His Dog". I used to like Mary McMaster's introduction to the tune, saying it's very important to get the three participants in the correct order............
# Posted on May 17th 2004 by Kenny
Sorry, both Keep it Up and Filska recorded it as "Donald Willie and His Dog" without any comma, so I believed it's just one man and his dog. Thanks for the story.
# Posted on May 17th 2004 by slainte
Listen, I know that this is the theme song to some American television show. Anyone know which one?
Johnathan
# Posted on May 17th 2004 by Harper_Lad
Donald, Willie And His Dog
I have it more like this:
A2 c cAc B2 G | A2 c cAc B3 | A2 c cAc B2 G | c2 A ABG A3 :|
B2 e eAc B2 A | B2 e eAc B3 | c2 e eAc B2 A | c2 A ABG A3 :|
A2 c ABB c2 A | A2 B Acc B3 | A2 c ABB c2 B | c2 A ABG A3 :|
e2 c cfd e2 c | cec cdc B3 | e2 c cfd e2 d | c2 A ABG A3 :|
# Posted on May 19th 2004 by Kenny
I was also told by Norman Chalmers of JT's Bairns that it is two people and a dog so the comma should be observed.
# Posted on May 19th 2004 by geoffwright
"Donald, Willie, and the Dog" ~ messing around in G
I know this might raise a little ire, but music sometimes squirms in your hands and goes elsewhere from where we started with it. I've never felt all that comfortable with this as Mixolydian, not like some Mixolydian tunes that just fit it beautifully. So this kept nudging into Major, A for starters, then it dropped down to G. Anyway, here it is in G Mix and let loose and slippery in G Major ~
X: 3
T: Donald, Willie, and the Dog
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: G Mixolydian
|: G2 B BGB A2 F | G2 B BGB A3 | G2 B BGB A2 F | B2 G GAF G3 :|
|: A2 d dGB A2 G | A2 d dGB A3 | A2 d dGB A2 G | B2 G GAF G3 :|
|: G2 B GAA BGG | G2 A GBB A3 | G2 B GAA BGG | B2 G GAF G3 :|
|: d2 B Bec d2 c | BdB BcB A3 | d2 B Bec d2 c | B2 G GAF G3 :|
X: 4
T: Donald, Willie, and the Dog
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: G Major
|: D |
G2 B BGB A2 d | G2 B BGB c>BA | G2 B BG/A/B AFD | E2 G GAF G2 :|
|: B |
A2 d dGB A2 F | A2 d dGB c>AF | Add dGB A2 c | B2 G GAF G2 :|
|: D |
G2 B GAA Bdd | G2 A GBB A>FD | G2 B GAA BdD | E2 G GAF G2 :|
|: B |
d2 B Be^c dBG | B/c/dB cBc A>Bc | d2 B Be^c d2 =c | B2 G GAF G2 :|
An alternate 4th part avoiding the high e and dropping down to E instead ~
|: B |
d2 B BE^c dBG | B/c/dB cBc A>Bc | d2 B BE^c d2 =c | B2 G GAF G2 :|
This last take in part inspired by the following:
Discussion: What One Octave Tunes in D exist?
# Posted on September 19th 2007 by Sarah the Flute
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/15202
# Posted on October 3rd 2007 by ceolachan