Key signature: Edorian
Submitted on January 28th 2007 by nicholas.
This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.
Also known as A Very Unfortunate Tailor, I'll Go And 'List For A Sailor, I'll Go And Enlist For A Sailor, List For Soldier, The Very Unfortunate Tailor.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Enlist For A Sailor
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Edor
B,2|:E2 EF|G2 A2|B2 e2|B2 Bc|
d2 d2|d2 FG|AB AF|D2 B,2|
E2 EF|G2 A2|B2 e2|B2 Bc|
d2 F2|A2 GF|E4 |1 E2 B,2:|2 E2 GA ||
|:B2e2|B2 e2|B2 G2|E2 FG|
A2 d2|A2 d2|A2 F2|D4 |
B2 e2|B2 e2|B2 G2|E2 FG|
A2 F2|d2 F2|E4 |1 EF GA :|2 E2 ||
Enlist For A Sailor
I came across this tune as a Morris tune using only the first part; someone I know who plays and calls ceilidhs devised the second part. I've no idea where it originated and forget with which Morris tradition it's been associated, but it fits in very well with the other 2/4 tunes pressed into service in ceilidhs in NE England.
I like it with low B's, but it can very easily be adapted to avoid these.
# Posted on January 28th 2007 by nicholas
GRRRRRRR!!!
You really know how to wind a fella up nicholas... I know this one, and not as a hybrid, as a tune that has been around for yonks. I've just tried searching this site with probably 16 measure in two different keys, but you know how bars can vary, but I haven't found it yet. I may just have to add the it as I know it here, or if they are distinct enough and it really isn't here, add it later... I've got to find the name/names though, to avoid another 'gan ainm'... Your transcription is very much one possible take on it, definitely related...
# Posted on January 28th 2007 by ceolachan
E & A Dorian & a number of different takes on the tune ~
& I know I have it somewhere in this house, or suspect it, or that it might be here already at 'TheSesh', or online, but I just spent some time searching for it online without luck, but I haven't given up. There are folks better able to suss this one out into the open, so I'm going to give the tune here with variations and hope for my sanity that either I'll remember, or someone else will put this in its place ~
T: ? ? ?
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: E Dorian ( & also playin in A Dorian )
D |
EE/F/ G/F/G/A/ | Be B>c | dA AF | FGAF D>B |
E/D/E/F/ G/F/G/A/ | Be BB/c/ | dF AG/F/ | E2 A/G/F/G/ |
E>F G>A | Be BB/c/ | dA AF | FGAF D2 |
EE/F/ GG/A/ | Be Bc | dF AF | E3 ||
G/A/ |
Be B>A | Be B>c | dA A/B/A/G/ | FGAF D2 |
BB/e/ BB/A/ | Be Bc | dF A/G/F/G/ | E2 EG/A/ |
Be B/c/B/A/ | Be B2 | dA A>G | FGAF D2 |
EE/F/ GG/A/ | Be Bc | dF AF | E3 ||
# Posted on January 30th 2007 by ceolachan
A Very Unfortunate Tailor
The Albion Band in 'Morris On' played 'I'll Go And 'List For A Sailor' combining it with a song 'A (The) Very Unfortunate Tailor'. Both shared the same melody, although the song had a B part and the Morris Dance only augmented music for the 'slows'.
# Posted on January 30th 2007 by Alancorsini
'c', is it this one you're thinking of http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4543? 69th St or Galway Belle.
# Posted on January 31st 2007 by Dow
Yes, they got the key wrong too, and that is a very simple take on it. The name rings "belles" and that should make it easier for me to chase it up here and see what else I might have on it...
# Posted on January 31st 2007 by ceolachan
I'll Go And Enlist For A Sailor
A single jig (danced by one man only and not to be confused with the term 'single jig' referring to the type of tune) from the village of Sherborne, in the Cotswolds. But it has a different 'B' music to the one here which, as already mentioned, was used for the 'slows'
# Posted on February 21st 2007 by hetty
List for a Soldier/Sailor
I have this tune from a workshop as "List for a Soldier", The A part is pretty much the same as "Enlist for a Sailor" but the B part is different - perhaps closer to the Galway Belle Bpart, but again not the same.
X: 1
T: Enlist For A Soldier
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Edor
B,2|:E2 EF | GF GA | B2 e2 | B2 Bc | d2 d2 | d2 F2 | AG FE | D2 F2|
E2 EF | GF GA | B2 e2 | B2 Bc | d2 F2 | A2 GF | E4 |1 E2 B,2 :|2 E2 B2 ||
e2 e2 | e2 fe | d2 B2 | B2 c2 | d2 d2 | d2 F2 | AG FE | D2 F2| E2 EF |
GF GA | B2 e2 | B2 Bc | d2 F2 | A2 GF | E4 |1 E2 B2 :|2 E2 B,2 ||
# Posted on September 27th 2007 by spindizzy