Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on May 25th 2004 by pizak.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as Dilwyn.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Not For Joe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
|: DG DG FE FE|DG DG FG A2|DG DG FE FE|1 .DD EF .G.G G2 :|2 .DD EF .G.G GA|
|: B3/2A/2 G/2A/2B c3/2B/2 A/2B/2c|B3/2A/2 G/2A/2B/2c/2 dA FA|\
B3/2A/2 G/2A/2B .cc d3/2c/2 |1 B/2A/2G AF G2 GA:|2 B/2A/2G AF G2 G z|
Barndance? More of a polka
It's not really a barndance, it doesn't have the rhythm or cadence of a barndance. Seems like more of a polka to me. Is this a trad Irish tune?
# Posted on May 25th 2004 by Mad Baloney
It's one of the most commonly used tunes for English morris dancing. I can't imagine ever wanting to play it again!!
# Posted on May 25th 2004 by Tarrantella
Ahh, Morris dancing.... I'm not familiar, at all, with the ins & outs of Morris. It could well be what the Morris musicians call a barndance. Anybody able to expand on the finer points?
# Posted on May 26th 2004 by Mad Baloney
- - - A CYMRAEG HEFYD - - -
It seems I've found the category 'dustbin', where tunes that haven't got a clear identity within TheSession.Org miasma are segwayed... Whew!, old socks too?
# Posted on July 23rd 2004 by ceolachan
Dilwyn
There are at least 4 different tunes to which the title "Not for Joe" is applied, one being the Irish Polka "Gan Ainm" and another being the tune of a music hall song beginning "Joseph Baxter is my name...". They are presumably all tunes which have been used for a Morris dance called "Not for Joe".
The tune posted here is also used for a Border Morris dance called Dilwyn, and so Dilwyn is an alternative title. It is sometimes called "Much Wenlock", but there is a different - and more interesting - tune called "Much Wenlock". I prefer to keep "Much Wenlock" for the other tune and "Not for Joe" or Dilwyn for this one.
I suspect that this has been the air of another musical hall song, or even a nursery rhyme. In the back of my mind it is connected with Flash Company and Lads out on the Town. I'm sure I've heard words to it.
# Posted on June 2nd 2005 by LowProfile