Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on August 27th 2004 by snowyowl.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as A Yome Came To Wir Door, Yarmin, A Yow Cam Ta Wir Door Yarmin, A Yow Cam Ta Wir Door Yarmin', A Yow Cam' Ta Wir Door Yarmin, A Yow Cam' To Wir Door Yarmin, A Yowe Cam Ta Wir Door Yarmin', A Yowe Cam' To Wir Door Yarmin', A Yowe Came To Wir Door, Yarmin, Yowe Cam Ta Wir Door Yarmin.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: A Yowe Came To Wir Door,Yarmin
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Cmaj
EDE CDE|G2 E G2 E|EDE CDE|d2 c2 BG|A6:|
cdc B2 G|cdc B2 G|cd ef^ g2|d2 cBAG|A6:|
Mistakes
2nd part "b"s and "g"s are an octave too high -and what's a "Yome" ?
# Posted on August 27th 2004 by Kenny
I know absolutely nothing about this tune or origins or anything, but in my absolute boredom, I saw in a previous post where snowyowl mentioned this tune. The title apparently translates to "A Ewe Came to My Door Bleating".
# Posted on August 27th 2004 by Jason G
A Yome Came To Wir Door, Yarmin
So, this is the one Fiddlers' Bid sing on the hidden track. I think they play and sing in 4/4.
# Posted on August 28th 2004 by slainte
Yowch?
It's a Shetland tune, one of the ones Tom Anderson and Aly Bain recorded on Shetland Folk Fiddling vol 2. And according to their liner notes, the second word should be Yow, with a W. ;))
# Posted on August 29th 2004 by sara g
A Yow came to our door yarmin
I agree that the highnotes in the second part are an error - the should be an octave down.
Angels of the North occasionally get asked to do an Eightsome Reel and we are uncomfortablewith themanic unphrased thrash that somebands offer. We have a structured48bar version of the main dance and use Gravel Walks toprovide the 40bar introandoutrosections.
Each dancers gets 3x a different 16 bar reel and A Yow is one of the ones we use.As you might imagine, 2x 40bars plus 24x16 is a fair amount of music.The dance takes about 15 minutes,all played at fast Scottish reel speed ,so the band need a rub down with a damp copy of the radio times afterwards.
Noel
# Posted on August 30th 2004 by noelbats
"A Yow Cam' to Wir Door Yarmin"
= "A ewe came to our door bleatin" ~ "from the playing of the late John Irvine of Whalsey."
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by ceolachan
"Da Mirrie Dancers" ~
edited by Tom Anderson & Tom Gerogeson
Shetland Folk Society, 2nd Edition, 1985
ISBN: 0-948276-02-9
Page 23: "Yowe Cam Ta Wir Door Yarmin"
~ & 4/4
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by ceolachan
"A Yow Cam' ta Wir Door Yarmin"
This tends to be played as either a 'listening piece' or a reel, in 4/4, and supposedly of great age.... Here follows a very simple transcription:
M:4/4
L:1/8
K: A minor
|: E2 DE CD E2 | G2 E2 G2 E2 | E2 DE CD E2 | cA BG A4 :|
|: c2 dc B2 G2 | c2 Ac B2 G2 | cd ef g2 d2 | cA BG A4 :|
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by ceolachan