Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on December 5th 2006 by litestikpilot.
This tune has been added to 29 tunebooks.
Also known as Sculley's, Scully's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Scollay's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emin
E2EFG2A2|BcBA GFGA|B2E2E2G2|FGAFD2GF|
E2EFG2A2|BcBA GFGA|B2Bc BAGF|G2E2E4:|
|:efgeB2B2|g2g2B4|c2BAG2G2|FGAFD2F2|
E2EFG2A2|BABde2d2|B2Bc BAGF|G2E2E4:|
I learned this tune from a friend of mine. I dont know much about it other than that it's a contra dance reel.
# Posted on December 5th 2006 by litestikpilot
Is this an American tune? It's like an old timey version of the King Of The Fairies. I've heard *of* it, but never heard it in an Irish session. I was wondering: do people who play this tune also play the King Of The Fairies as a separate tune?
# Posted on December 5th 2006 by Dow
Scollay's Reel
It is a Shetland variant of "King of the Fairies". I have it one of my notebooks, but I neglected to note where I got it. Possibly from Edinburgh fiddler Rosa Michaelson.
X:1
T:Scollay's Reel
Z:Nigel Gatherer
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:Em
E3 F G3 A | BcBA GEGA | B2 E2 E2 G2 | FGAF D3 F |
E3 F G3 A | BcBA GEGA | B3 c BAFA | G2 E2 e4 :|
efge B2 B2 | g2 g2 B4 | c2 BA G2 G2 | FGAF D3 F |
E3 F G3 A | BcBd e2 d2 | B3 c BAFA | G2 E2 E4 :|
# Posted on December 5th 2006 by nigelg
"The King Of The Fairies" ~ connecting the dots
Key signature: E Dorian
Submitted on January 1st 2002 by Jeremy.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/475
# Posted on December 5th 2006 by ceolachan
Scollay's Reel
We play the King of f the Fairies as a different tune, which is more like Prince (or King) William of Orange.
Scollay's is played as 2 As and 2Bs and the King of the Fairies is 2As and one B as the B part is more complex.
King of th Fairies is on one of Swarb's albums. Can't recall which.
# Posted on December 11th 2006 by Susie-Lee
Scollay's Reel
In a set, follows on well from Whinham's Reel (q.v.), as I heard in a session last night.
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by lazyhound
& just where were you last night?
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by ceolachan
I heard this tune from John McCutcheon about thirty years ago. I've always been curious about its provenance and I've occasionally searched tune books and the net and, until now, never found a reference other to than one of John's early albums.
It never sounded very Irish to me, especially the way John played it, but I always liked it a lot. He played it slow and with a swing - sort of like a slow march.
# Posted on September 9th 2007 by Bob himself