Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on July 15th 2005 by drone.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Also known as Alistair O'Carroll's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Few Bob, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
GA|:BABG EFGA|~B2 G2 G2 gf|e3d cBAG|E2 A2 A2 GA|
~BABG EF G2|~BABd efge|dcBA GABA|1 ~G2 E2 E2 GA :|2 ~G2 E2 E2 ef ||
|:g3e defg|a2 d2 d2 ef|g3f efga|bdad a2 ga|
bgab abgf|edef g2 fe|dcBA GABA|1 ~G2 E2 E2 ef:|2 ~G2 E2 E2 GA||
I lifted this slightly wistful little tune from Maeve Donnelly's album... her fiddle positively rings throughout the whole tune (and album for that matter)... the closest I can manage trying to match her ornamentation on the tilde notes is to try to treat them as a long roll, even though they're 1/8 or 1/4 notes - and that gives a reasonably close approximation of that lovely scratch / stutter. Give her a listen though... it's utterly worth it
# Posted on July 15th 2005 by drone
I've looked for it
Thanks, Greg, for submitting this tune. I've been looking for the dots for a few years now., since the one source I had (fiddler I used to accompany) is no longer available to play it for me.
# Posted on July 21st 2005 by vonnieestes
It was crooked when he played it...
Does anyone know of a crooked version of this tune, or was it just the person playing it for me who made it so?
# Posted on July 21st 2005 by vonnieestes
Alistair O'Carroll's
Learnt this tune off Desi Wilkinson this summer in Miltown. His first part is a bit different A|B2BA BAGE| DGGF G2 Bd| etc. but the second part is more or less the same. I could be mistaken but is the key not E minor rather than G Maj?
# Posted on September 26th 2006 by the wounded hussar
Vonnieestes, any chance you're thinking of the Factory Smoke? http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1985. It's quite similar in places.
# Posted on May 9th 2007 by Dow