Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on September 26th 2006 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 35 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Queen Of Sluts, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:d2 AF GABc|d2 AF GEEA|d2 AF GABc|1dfec d2d2:|2 dfec d2 cd||
|:e2 cA e2 cA|Bcde dcBA|AFGA Bcde|1dcBc d2 cd:|2dcBc d2d2||
From Brian McNeiil's album "Monksgate".Not a very p.c. title,but who cares?
# Posted on September 26th 2006 by dafydd
Not to worry!
I know an Irish man who dubbs himself the Queen of Sluts and mean well!
# Posted on September 26th 2006 by birlibirdie
I remember playing this at school. I've always loved the name!
# Posted on September 26th 2006 by Dow
What kind of school did you go to?
# Posted on September 27th 2006 by dafydd
The original meaning of slut is someone who is slovenly and untidy I believe. The sexual connotation is more recent.
# Posted on September 27th 2006 by Geoff Pollitt
From the Online Etymological Dictionary.
1402, "a dirty, slovenly, or untidy woman," probably cognate with dialectal Ger. Schlutt "slovenly woman," dialectal Swed. slata "idle woman, slut," and Du. slodder "slut," but the ultimate origin is doubtful. Chaucer uses sluttish (c.1386) in ref. to the appearance of an untidy man. Also "a kitchen maid, a drudge" (c.1450; hard pieces in a bread loaf from imperfect kneading were called slut's pennies, 18c.). Meaning "woman of loose character, bold hussy" is attested from c.1450; playful use of the word, without implication of loose morals, is attested from 1664.
"Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily." [Pepys, diary, Feb. 21, 1664]
Sometimes used 19c. as a euphemism for bitch to describe a female dog. There is a group of North Sea Gmc. words in sl- that mean "sloppy," and also "slovenly woman," and that tend to evolve toward "woman of loose morals" (cf. slattern, also Eng. dial. slummock "a dirty, untidy, or slovenly person," 1861; M.Du. slore "a sluttish woman").
# Posted on September 28th 2006 by dafydd
Queen of Sluts
This is in one of the Northumbrian Pipers books though it is not played much up here these days. I think the original was published in the Vickers collection.
Angels of the North do play it as a Northumnbrian Reel but some other competent players prefer to slow it down and bouce it more so it comes out as a schottische.
Noel
# Posted on October 2nd 2006 by noelbats