Key signature: Edorian
Submitted on May 14th 2007 by Kenny.
This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Weave The Bog Cotton
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
ed |: B2 ED E2 ed | BEED EAGA | FDDE D2 dc | dAFA DAFB |
GEED E2 ef | edBA BAGF | G2 DG GBdB | AFDE FE E2 :|
e2 ed (3Bcd ed | (3Bcd ef gfef | dBAF D2 FA | d2 fd edBA |
Beed (3Bcd ef | g2 gf gfed | B2 AB GBdB | AFDE FE E2 :|
Weave The Bog Cotton
Irish tunes have been pretty scarce among recent postings, so here’s my contribution to redress the balance, hopefully. In the next 3 days I’m going to post transcriptions of 3 reels composed by Mary Bergin. Mary came over to Scotland a couple of times around 2002 to do some whistle workshops/masterclasses. At one point, someone asked Mary if she had ever written any of her own tunes, and she played 3 reels which she had composed and recorded with “Dordan” on this CD :
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/64
This is the 1st, and I’ll post the others in the next 2 days. They are reels, but she played them in a very “hornpipey” style to my ears, nevertheless, it would be a shame if they weren’t played more. There are faint echoes of some other tunes in them, but every now and again she slips in a note which you don’t expect. Hope you enjoy them.
# Posted on May 14th 2007 by Kenny
Weave The Bog Cotton
I've often seen cotton-grass on walks over the moors. I wonder whether it was ever used for making cloth, though I have never heard of this; or whether, on the other hand, "weave the bog cotton" is simply an ironic expression to denote something impossible or futile.
# Posted on May 15th 2007 by nicholas