Key signature: Bminor
Submitted on August 3rd 2005 by gwfowler.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as Lady Margaret Stewart.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Lady Margaret Stewart's
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Bmin
|: FB B>c|dB cA|EA A>B|cd ec|
BF Bc|dc db|af ec|B2 B2:|
f2 Bf|df Bf|ea e>f|ec Aa|
f2 Bf|df Bb|af ec|B2 Ba|
f2 Bf|df Bf|ea e>f|ec Ac|
BF Bc|dc db|af ec|B2 B2||
Another Unnamed Kerry Polka
I play this one following Galway Belle. A tune name and a recorded source would be most helpful. As suggested, I did Google the abc, but without results.
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by gwfowler
Reel!
This isn't a polka, it's a reel. Speed it up, take out the >, play it in 4s, inject a little bit of swing into it, and there you have it. It's an old Scottish reel called Lady Margaret Stewart. Find a reel transcription via JC's search
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/TuneFind?P=lady+margaret+stewart&m=title&M=&L=&K=&V=0&W=wide&limit=100&thresh=5&find=FIND, or go to FC and scroll down: http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/LADYM_LADYS.htm.
# Posted on August 4th 2005 by Dow
Thank you, Dow
Well, we'll have to remind the Kerry lads to quit borrowing Scottish tunes for nefarious polka use! Thanks for the reference. As you note in your discourse on Northumbrian tunes, these melodies do get passed around quite a bit .......
# Posted on August 4th 2005 by gwfowler
A lot of the time they borrow the Scottish 2/4 marches and transform them, but it looks like they'll polkarize just about anything!
# Posted on August 4th 2005 by Dow
Source? ~ 'gfowler', did you get this from 'Kerry Lads'? Which ones?
Just curious, as always. I haven't yet died from that affliction, though my life has been threatened with extinction. Where exactly did you get this as a 'polka'?
# Posted on September 20th 2005 by ceolachan
Here's to flingin' it about ~
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4983
# Posted on September 20th 2005 by ceolachan
"Lady Margaret Stewart" ~ reel
|: A |
FBBc dcBA | EAAB cdec | BFBc d3 b | afec B3 :|
|: a |
f2 Bf dfBf | eaef ecAa | f3 B dfBb | afec Bcda |
f3 B d f3 | eaef e c3 | BFBc dcdb | afec B3 ||
# Posted on July 29th 2006 by ceolachan