Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 4th 2007 by mikk.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Osprey, The
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
|: E>G | A2 A>B | A2 B>d | e2 e>f | e2 d>B | G2 G>F |
G2 G>A | c>B A>B | E2 E>G | A2 A>B | A2 B>d |
e>f g>e | a2 e>f | g2 e>d | B2 E>G | A4 | A2 :|
|: e>f | g2 f>e | a2 e>f | g2 f>e | a2 d>c |
B2 A>B | E2 E>G | B2 A>B | d2 e>f | g2 f>e | a2 e>f |
g2 f>e | a2 e>f | g2 e>d | B2 E>G | A4 | A2 :|
"The Osprey"
This is familiar, but I can' t quite place why or where I would have picked it up. I know this as a march and a slightly different B-part...
Does anyone else have more information to offer? ~ please? ~ 'mikk'???
# Posted on March 5th 2007 by ceolachan
"The Osprey" by Dougie MacLean (evidently)
He plays it at 108 bpm, or between 105 - 110 bpm...
It is likely that it has reminding me of something else, but something very close to this melody... Now to see if I can remember exactly what...
# Posted on March 5th 2007 by ceolachan
Osprey
There are very-well protected ospreys at the Loch o' the Lowes, very close to where Dougie lives. However, I happen to know that Dougie, while at school, used to work in a chip shop in Dunkeld which was called "The Osprey". I prefer to think he named the tune after the former.
# Posted on March 5th 2007 by Kenny
The tune has more of the glide and sweep of the bird than the deep fat frying of chips about it...
# Posted on March 5th 2007 by ceolachan
I can't seem to get away from playing it as a march. I'll have to add that take on it here later, to help get it out of my system...
# Posted on March 5th 2007 by ceolachan
"The Osprey" ~ marchified
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: march
K: G Major
|: EF/G/ |
A>^GAB A2 B/c/d | e>^def e2 =dB | G2 G>F G2 G/A/B | dBA>B E2 EG |
A2 AB A2 Bd | e>fge a3 b | aged B/c/e EG | A2 A>B A2 :|
|: B/c/d |
g2 fe ab/a/ ef | g2 fe a2 d>c | B2 AB EF/E/ EG | B2 A>B d2 d/e/f |
g2 g/f/e a2 e>f | ga/g/ fe a2 e>f | g2 e>d B/c/e EG | A2 AA/A/ A2 :|
# Posted on March 5th 2007 by ceolachan