Key signature: Dminor
Submitted on May 22nd 2004 by Batlady.
This tune has been added to 6 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Mrs. Ferguson Of Raith
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: strathspey
K: Dmin
G>F |:D2G2G2F>G | A2G2G2G>A | F2f2f2ed | cBAG FGAF |
D2G2G2F>G | A2G2G2fg | agfd fdcA | G4G4 :|
{A}G2g2g2ga | fgafg2ga | f2fc fgag | agfdc2f2 |
{f}d2g2g2ga | fcfag2ga |f2cf dcAF | G4G4 |
{A}G2g2g2{g}a2 | fcfag2ag | f2fc fgag | agfdc2f2 |
dcdfg2ag | fcfag2ag | f2cf dcAF | G4G4|
Mrs. Ferguson
This isn't really a strathspey; it's a march. Whatever. I just learned it, and am in the process of making it sound more, um, bagpipey. I don't think that's a word.
# Posted on May 22nd 2004 by Batlady
"Bagpipey"
I think that's a perfectly good word - Rather than "Bagpiperishlike". Depending on the instrument you play ... if you can push the "G" drones - or get someone else to play G and or F drones when they occur, you'll get closer to the bagpipey sound. Drones rule.
Good little tune, fun to play. Thanks for posting it.
# Posted on May 23rd 2004 by 2situla
Where is Raith?
I'd be interested to know the history of this tune, i.e if the title was "tongue in cheek".
Raith Rovers is the local football team in Kirkcaldy and, as far as I know, there's no town called Raith in Scotland. Several years ago, this team actually won something and a "clueless" English football commentator said "There'll be dancing in the streets of Raith tonight". This went down in local folklore and I wonder if the tune is just somebody's sense of humour.
# Posted on May 23rd 2004 by Johannes J
Glad you liked the tune, 2situla. I also appreciate a deftly applied drone.
John, I think that there was an estate named Raith in the Kirkcaldy area, and Mrs. Ferguson was a resident thereof. So perhaps Mrs. Ferguson marched in the bosky dells of Raith. But I'm just as clueless as the football guy; my only credentials are that of a hopeless history geek.......
# Posted on May 24th 2004 by Batlady