Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on July 12th 2005 by fidkid.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Also known as Mi 'M Shuidh' An Deireadh Bata.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Sitting In The Stern Of A Boat
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: strathspey
K: Gmaj
(3DEF |: "G"G3 A G2 F2 | "Em"E4 D2 G2 | "G"B3 c d2 B2 | "D"A4 G2 E2 |
"G"D3 E G3 A | "Em"B3 d "C"gedc | "G"B2 Bc "D"A2 AB |1 "G"G2 DEFD :|2 "G"G4 z2 g2 |
|| "C"e3 d e2 f2 | "G"g6 b2 | "D"a3 g a2 b2 | "Em"e4 d2 B2 |
"G"d2 ef g3 a | "Em"g3 a gagf | "C"e3 ^d e2 f2 | "Em"e6 g2 |
"G"e2 dB d2 e2 | "Em"g4 B2 b2 | "G"g3 e d2 B2 | "D"A4 G2 E2 |
"G"D3 E G3 A | "Em"B3 f "C"g3 d/c/ | "G"B2 Bc "D"A2 AB | "G" G8 |]
Sitting in the Stern of a Boat
Yeah, okay, this is a slow air, not a strathspey, although I’ve heard this played uptempo with a bit of snap, which I hope can qualify it for inclusion here. Bit of a stretch, I’ll admit, but I love this tune and thought it should be in the database. My friends and I like to play it both ways. It’s a tribute to the melody that it can be heartachingly sweet played slowly, and still sound wonderful played at a jauntier pace.
Composed by the Rev. William McLeod in the late 1700s when he was assigned to a parish in Argyll and had to leave his native Bracadale on the Isle of Skye.
# Posted on July 12th 2005 by fidkid