Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on May 9th 2006 by stoneboy.
This tune has been added to 26 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Smokey Lum, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Amaj
BF DB, =G,B, DF |EA cB AE dc |B3/2F/ F/F/F Bd fd |ca ga ec Ac |
d2 fd cA EA |=GA Bd cA dc |B3/2F/ F/F/F DF B,F |EA dc B2 dc |
BF DB, =G,B, DF |EA cB AE dc |B3/2F/ F/F/F Bd fd |ca ga ec Ac |
d2 fd cA EA |=GA Bd cA dc |B3/2F/ F/F/F DF B,F |EA dc B2 de |
fa ed cA EA |=GA Bd cA de |fd (3fga ea ca |ba fd cA dc |
B2 FB c2 Ac |dB fd cA dc |BF DF EA cf |ed cA Bc de |
fa ed cA EA |=GA Bd cA de |fd (3fga ea ca |ba fd cA dc |
B2 FB c2 Ac |dB fd cA dc |BF DF EA cf |ed cA B2 dc |]
Publisher
Please note that the composer Stuart Morison has requested that the publisher of the tune Bug Music should be added to the ABCs. I was unable to do this due to the restrictions in the submission process, but hope that this comment will be satisfacory instead - please add the publishers name if you use the tune in any other way.
# Posted on May 9th 2006 by stoneboy
Delay
My apologies for taking so long to post this tune after Stuart kindly gave his permission. My ABC skills are a bit limited, however the version posted is what I hear - it would be interesting to have any comments or corretions you might have Stuart. I think the tune may actually be in F#m rather than A but this key choice wasn't available.
# Posted on May 9th 2006 by stoneboy
Sorry - corrections
# Posted on May 9th 2006 by stoneboy
Hornpipe ?
I have submitted the tune as a hornpipe as I think it has a bouncy feel to it, however it was played briskly at reel pace on the Tannahill Weavers recording.
# Posted on May 9th 2006 by stoneboy
The story behind the tune . . .
Just in case anyone isn't sure, a Lum is an old Scots word for a chimney !
Anyway, I wrote the tune at roughly the same time as one of my other tunes - Maggie's Pancakes. It was written during the time I was staying in the late Citty Finlayson's house in Newport, Fife. Part of the house had a great room for playing fiddle in and the first time I used it I lit a fire in the quaint old fireplace. Of course Citty had neglected to warn me that the lum in there hadn't been swept for years and so my fire produced more smoke that flames, most of which somehow managed to stay in the room !
Thanks for posting the tune stoneboy . It was written as a reel, though I can see how it may be interpreted in Hornpipe style. You've pretty much got the notes right. Thanks for your interest.
# Posted on December 16th 2006 by smorison
Check out Maggie's Pancakes at http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1316
Another birrilliant, smashin, giant tune from smorison. How does he do it?!!
# Posted on June 22nd 2009 by birlibirdie
Key
I just heard someone playing this song in Texas and was trying to learn it by ear (what a task that was!). Quite fun to learn. However, it was played in the key of A minor, rather than B dorian. The first measure goes down to a G natural as written but in the key of A minor, the player jumps up to F then back down to A.
# Posted on October 3rd 2011 by Fastfiddle