The Frost Is All Over

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on December 19th 2001 by Toni Ribas.

This tune has been added to 223 tunebooks.

Also known as American Dwarf, The American Dwarf, Camp Jigg, The Camp Jigg, Frost Is All Over, Hey To The Camp, Kitty Lie Over, Kitty, Lie Over, The Masque, The Praties Are Dug And The Frost Is All Over, Slán Le Sioc, Tá'n Sioc Imithe, Young Tim Murphy.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• 1891-1945 Disc 1 by Michael Coleman
• American Special by Stockton's Wing
• An Mileoidean Scaoilte by Johnny Connolly
• Another Side Of Cape Breton by Johnny Wilmot
• At The Feis by John Doonan
• Blackthorn Ceilidh Band by Blackthorn Ceilidh Band
• Ceol Tire by Various Artists
• Classic Recordings Of The Irish Fiddle Legend by Paddy Reynolds
• Cold Blow And The Rainy Night by Planxty
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 5 by Matt Cunningham
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 6 by Matt Cunningham
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 8 by Matt Cunningham
• Dermot Byrne by Dermot Byrne
• Donkey's Years by The Roaring Donkey Sessions
• Fidil by Ciarán Ó Maonaigh And Aidan O'Donnell
• Fierce Traditional by Frankie Gavin
• First Hand by Mairi Rankin
• Foinn Seisiun 1 by Ceoltóirí Cultúrlainne
• Forty Years Of Irish Piping by Seamus Ennis
• Galway's Own by Joe Burke
• Give It Shtick by Matt Cranitch
• In The Heather by Various Artists
• Ireland's Best Session Tunes CD 2 by Waltons Recording
• Jigs, Reels And Airs by Seamus Tansey
• Kilkenny Road by Kilkenny Road
• King Of The Concert Flute by Seamus Tansey
• Kitty Lie Over by Mick O'Brien And Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh
• Luí Na Gréine by Seosamh Mac Grianna (Joe Mhicí Jimí)
• Milltown Lass by Rose Murphy
• Mind The Dresser: Music For The Sets Volume 2 by Various Artists
• Music In Exile: A Celebration Of Comhaltas In Leeds by Leeds CCE
• My Love Is In America by David Power
• On Oiche Go Maidin by O'aces
• Past Masters Of Irish Dance Music by Various Artists
• Portraid by Sean Maguire
• Remember Des Donnelly by Des Donnelly
• Sean Potts by Sean Potts And Paddy Moloney
• Set Dancing Downunder by The Coast Ceili Band
• Streetlife by Patrick Street
• Take The Air by Sean Ryan
• The Blue CD by Irish Session Tunes
• The Brass Fiddle: Traditional Fiddle Music From Donegal by Various Artists
• The Coleman Archive Vol. 2: The Home Place by Various Artists
• The Dawn by Baal Tinne
• The Fiddle Music Of Donegal - Volume One by Various Artists
• The Frost Is All Over by Paul McGrattan
• The Irish Girl by Robin Bullock And Michel Sikiotakis
• The Legendary Angus Fitchet by Angus Fitchet
• The Phantom Shadows Of A Connaught Fire (1 Of 3) by Seamus Tansey
• The Planxty Collection by Planxty
• The Raineys by The Raineys
• Toss The Feathers by Ted Furey And Brendan Byrne
• Traditional Fiddle Music From Donegal by Con Cassidy
• Traditional Fiddle Music Of Cape Breton Volume 1: Mabou Coal Mines by Various Artists
• Traditional Irish Music (traditional Music Session From Belfast) by Various Artists
• Traditional Irish Music On Flute And Tin Whistle by Laurence Nugent
• Undertones by Adrian Barker And Ben Stephenson
• Yvonne Casey by Yvonne Casey

X: 1
T: Frost Is All Over, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
~d3 edc|dAF GFE|DFA dFA|Bcd efg|
fed edc|dAF GFE|DFA dFA|B2c d3:|
|:~f3 ~a3|~g3 bag|f2a afd|1 ~g3 efg|
fef afd|~g3 bag|fga efg|fdc d3:|
2 ~g3 e2g|fga efg|fdB AFA|Bcd ece|fd/e/f gfe||

This is also the tune of a song called The Praties Are Dug And The Frost Is All Over.

# Posted on August 24th 2002 by Zina Lee

Words

Now that you mention it, I'm remembering some words to go with this tune.

Here's what I can recall:

"Oh, what'll you do if the kettle boils over?
What'll you do, only fill it again?
And what'll you do if the cow ate the clover?
What'll you do, only set it again?"

Where did I hear this? It's definitely on a recording somewhere.

Did Planxty do this one with words? Maybe that's where I heard it.

# Posted on August 24th 2002 by Jeremy

Well, I know the Clancy Bros. recorded it as What Would You Do If You Married a Soldier. Their version has a chorus of nonsense lilting. Henrik gives the words on his website as:

1. What would you do if the kettle boiled over?
What would I do? Only fill it again.
And what would you do if the cow ate the clover?
What would I do only set it again.

2. The praties are dug and the frost is all over
Kitty lie over close to the wall.
How would you like to be married to a soldier?
Kitty lie over close to the wall.

3. The praties all boil and the herring's a roasting
Kitty lie over close to the wall.
You to be drunk and me to be sober
Kitty lie over close to the wall.

4. What would you do if you married a soldier
what would you do would you follow his gun?
And what would you do if he drowned in the ocean
what would you do would you marry again?

# Posted on August 24th 2002 by Zina Lee

This tune is also known in a slightly different version as "The American Dwarf", as follows

K:Dmaj
A|def fed|BdB AFD|DFA B2A|cee e2A|
def fed|BdB AFD|DFA B2A|Add d2:|
|:e|fga agf|gab bag|fga agf|gfg e2g|
fga agf|gab bag|fga efg|fdd d2:||

trevor

# Posted on December 18th 2002 by lazyhound

This jig, slightly different, is one of the first tunes in Kevin Burke's
6-tape learn to play the Irish fiddle set.

# Posted on September 12th 2003 by stewardy

I take back that last comment - the tune he teaches is the one known as the Mist of Clonmel or The Frost is All Over. But the Mist tune is the one that goes with the words given above sung by the Clancy Brothers.

# Posted on September 12th 2003 by stewardy

Seamus Ennis plays this/sings it on the Forty Years of Piping CD/Casette.

# Posted on August 18th 2004 by fiddlinviolinin

Version as played by Mick O'Brien

X: 1
T: Kitty Lie Over
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
d2B | AFD DFA | Add B2A | ABA ~F3 | GFG EFG |
AFD DFA | Add B2A | ABA F2E |1 EDD :|2 EDD D2||
e | fdd ede | fdd d2e | fdd def | g2e efg |
afd B2A | AdF G2B | ABA F2E | EDD D2 :|

# Posted on November 17th 2004 by uilleannpipes

Father O'Flynn

Is it just me, or would anyone else consider this as a variant of Father O'Flynn (or the reverse...)?

# Posted on December 11th 2004 by kris

Not me.

# Posted on December 11th 2004 by Dow

The Frost is All Over

It's like Fr O' Flynn, but I wouldn't say it's close enough to be a variant.
We play a set: The Frost is All Over + Tripping Up the Stairs + Fr O' Flynn

# Posted on December 11th 2004 by murfbox

Correction to the above. The set is actually four tunes:
Frost is All Over + Out on The Ocean + Tripping Up The Stairs + Fr. O' Flynn

# Posted on December 11th 2004 by murfbox

The Frost Is All Over

I was playing this tune last night and realized that I'm finally starting to get inside the feel of it. I think I have it down well enough to start playing it in a set... but what to put with it... my repertoire is still so small...

So if you play The Frost Is All Over, what are some of the tunes you put into sets with it?

# Posted on January 6th 2005 by sara g

Re: The Frost Is All Over

Saddle the Pony into Frost is pretty nice. I taught those to my students...

# Posted on January 6th 2005 by Jode

Re: The Frost Is All Over

I learned Frost is All Over from Planxty's set into Hare in the Corn. Or was it the other way around?

# Posted on January 6th 2005 by Will CPT

Re: The Frost Is All Over

Hey Fiddlemouse, if you are looking for tunes to go with tunes, as well as asking contributors to the board, why not go to the tunes section of this site. Then you can find the "frost is all over", and it'll give you a list of submitted recordings it is on. If you look at those recordings, it will show you the sets that your tune is played with on those recordings.
Though you may already have done this....
Mark

# Posted on January 6th 2005 by Ottery

Re: The Frost Is All Over

I have followed it with The Tenpenny Bit (or Three Drummers?)as well. I learned the two in the early days and paired them.

# Posted on January 6th 2005 by Jode

Re: The Frost Is All Over

Hills of Glenorchy (aka Over the Hills) into The Lough Gill (aka The Mill Pond) into The Frost Is All Over.

# Posted on January 6th 2005 by grymater

Re: The Frost Is All Over

frost is all over, kitty lie over, gander in the pratie hole

# Posted on January 6th 2005 by I_Fel

Re: The Frost Is All Over

Rambling Pitchfork
Frost is all Over
(key change to G)
The Battering Ram

# Posted on January 6th 2005 by saltcast

Re: The Frost Is All Over

I have a lovely recording of the frost followed by Lark of the morning (Johnny Wilmot)

# Posted on January 7th 2005 by CC

Re: The Frost Is All Over

Frost is All Over, Eavesdropper (in key of "G") and Sixpenny Money.

# Posted on January 7th 2005 by Bannerman

Re: The Frost Is All Over

... you could folllow it with The Connaughtman's Rambles - one of my favourite sets of jigs - there's so much rhythm in those two tunes

# Posted on January 7th 2005 by John Gillard

Re: The Frost Is All Over

Oh, yeah, I could --- and I'm partway through learning Connaughtman's Rambles, too, so it won't take forever to get there. There's a light at the end of the tunnel! (With luck, *not* an oncoming train, though....) ;)
(happy mouse dance!)
Thank you all for your suggestions, I'm delighted to see so many possibilities. Mark (Ottery), thanks, I'm doing that too but I also wanted feedback from Sessionistas. I respect y'all's judgment!

# Posted on January 7th 2005 by sara g

"Uilleannpipes" you've confused 2 completely different tunes.

# Posted on June 11th 2005 by Dow

Hey To The Camp

This really old jig is probably English in origin. It appears in a few old manuscripts, and most often in the key of C. It's nice in C - give it a try:

X: 1
T: Hey To The Camp
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: Jig
S: Playford (1688); Henry Atkinson MS (1694-5)
Z:Dow
K:Cmaj
c/d/ec dBG|A/B/cE D2C|E/F/GE G2G|c/d/ec d2d|
c/d/ec dBG|A/B/cE D2C|E/F/GG A/B/cc|e/f/ge c3:|
|:e/f/ge gec|f/g/af a2a|e/f/ge gec|dGd d3|
e/f/ge gec|f/g/af agf|e/f/ge dBG|A/B/cE C3:|

X: 1
T: Hey To The Camp
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: Jig
S: William Vickers MS (1770)
Z: Dow
K: Cmaj
cec dBG|AcE D2C|EGG G2G|cec d2d|
cec dBG|AcE D2C|EGG egf|e2d c3:|
|:ege gec|faf afd|ege gec|B/c/dB G2G|
ege gec|faf afd|edc BAB|cGE C3:|

# Posted on June 11th 2005 by Dow

X: 1
T: The Frost Is All Over
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: Jig
S: Me
Z: Dow
K: Cmaj
|:G|cec dBG|AcE D2C|EGG GEG|cec d2G|
cec dBG|AcE D2C|EGG egf|ecB c2:|
|:d|ege gec|faf afd|ege gec|~f3 d2f|
ege gec|faf afd|ege dcd|ecB c2:|

# Posted on June 11th 2005 by Dow

"The Mist of Clonmel" = "The Frost is All Over" ~ D Major ~ take 2

Submitted on September 19th 2002 by Toni Ribas.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/977

# Posted on November 26th 2005 by ceolachan

"The Frost is All Over" ~ take 3?

"Young Tim Murphy"
Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on March 17th 2005 by JACKB.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4322

# Posted on December 21st 2005 by ceolachan

Not so sure about your take 3, 'c'...

# Posted on December 21st 2005 by Dow

Kitty Lie Over/Paddy's Return is a different tune

# Posted on December 21st 2005 by Dow

Yes, but the same lyrics are sometimes sung to it, so the title sometimes carrys over too... That's why the '?' You're just not doing enough singing Dow...

# Posted on December 21st 2005 by ceolachan

"The Praties are Dug" and "The Frost is All Over"
"Kitty Lie Over" next to the wall ~

# Posted on December 21st 2005 by ceolachan

But, I do understand ~ this tune, the one given on this page of the site is not the one the lyrics are sung too, not to the best of my knowledge and experience. I suppose you could force toe lyrics to fit? So, adding the link does tend to perpetuate the length of all these mis-placed comments, whether or not there's a sharing of titles...

# Posted on December 21st 2005 by ceolachan

Hmmm? ~ I can sing it to the two links given...

# Posted on December 21st 2005 by ceolachan

Here's yet another submission http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5199

# Posted on March 6th 2006 by Dow

"The Frost Is All Over" / "Kitty Lie Over"

K: D Major
|: A |
def edB | AFD E2 D | DFA AFA | Bee edc |
dd/e/f edB | AFD E2 F | D2 A AFA | Bdc d2 :|
|: e |
fef afd | gfg bag | f2 f agf | g2 g e2 g |
1 f3 afd | g3 bag | ff/g/a efg | fdc d2 :|
2 f/g/af gfe | fdB AFA | Bcd efg | fg/a/f e2 ||

alternate ending &/or first lead ~ | fg/a/f gf ||: e |

K: G Major
|: B |
AFD DFA | Add B2 A | ABA F2 E | FEE E2 B |
AFD DF/G/A | Add B2 A | ABA F2 E | FDD D2 :|
|: e |
fdd dcd | fdd d2 e | f^ef d=ef | g2 f efg |
ff/e/d B2 d | Add F2 G | ABA F2 E | FDD D2 :|

# Posted on July 12th 2006 by ceolachan

Here's a 3 part setting, fairly close to the one played by Patrick Street on 'Street Life'

X: 1
T: The Frost is All Over
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
A|:def edB|AFD {EF}E2D|DFA AFA|Bee edB|
def edB|AFD {EF}E2D|DFA AFA|1 Bdc d2A:|2 Bdc d2e||
|:faa afd|gbb bge|faa afd|gfg efg|
faa afd|gbb bge|fdd efg|1 fdc d2e:|2 fdc d2B||
|:AFF dFF|AFF EFE|DFA AFA|Bee e2d|
AFF dFF|AFF EFE|DFA AFA|1 Bdc d2B:|2 Bdd d2A||

Tim

# Posted on August 16th 2006 by tmcelrea

The heron's a roasting...

I know someone who developped a whole theory about the Ancient Irish eating herons on account of that one line:
'The pratties all boil and the herring's a roasting' !!
Who'll have seconds?

# Posted on September 30th 2006 by birlibirdie

ME!!! ~ sgadan a' tatties ~ !!!

Damn, a favourite and my salivary glands are going ~ sgadan a' tatties...

# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by ceolachan

planxty's version switches verses 3 and 4 in zina's lyrics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAYW5dwZJRA&mode=related&search=

# Posted on May 23rd 2007 by daiv

Different...

The tune here is a bit *cough* different than the one Seamus Ennis does on Fourty Years of Irish piping. Same time however. Reason?

# Posted on August 23rd 2007 by tin_whistler

Typo

Sorry that's same TUNE however... ^^

# Posted on August 23rd 2007 by tin_whistler

Grrrr

My brain is wired backwards... Probably why I play whistle and pipes lefthanded even though I'm right handed. Anyways, for the 3rd try, I meant to say in my original post, same title however.

# Posted on August 23rd 2007 by tin_whistler

This is NOT "The Frost is all over"

The tune "Frost is all over" as recorded by Planxty (1974) shows up as "Kitty Lie Over/Paddy's Return" on this website and as Paddy's Return in Sullivan's "Irish Traditional Music Book 2. However, like Planxty, other artists appear to have recorded that same tune as "Frost is all over". A different tune is "Frost is all Over (American Dwarf)" and is listed in Michale Raven's (1984) One Thousand English Country Dances. That tune has been recorded as Frost is All Over by a number of artists including Le Ceoltoiri Culturlainne (2004). The tune is actually English and from an 18th century circus act (lazyhound, personal communication, 2007) where, I believe, a dwarf would ride standing up on a horseback.
The tune posted here is neither Frost is All Over (American Dwarf), nor is it Kitty Lie Over/Paddy's Return. The A-part appears to be a hybrid between Father O'Flynn and Kitty Lie Over while the B-part is a simplfied B-part of Frost is all over.

# Posted on December 30th 2007 by gldms

Correction..

Actually, I just realized I was mistaken about the dwarf on a horse bit, that story is associated with the tune Astley's Ride.

# Posted on June 30th 2008 by gldms