Key signature: Edorian
Submitted on May 27th 2007 by Dow.
This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.
Also known as Cock Your Pistol Charley, Cock Your Pistol, Charlie.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Cock Your Pistol Charlie
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: Edor
E2e e2f g2f e2c|d2B A2F D2E FED|
E2e e2f g2f e2c|d2B A2F E3 E2D:|
|:E2B B2A B2A F2A|d2B A2F D2E FED|
E2B B2A B2A F2A|Bcd A2F E3 E2D:|
Cock Your Pistol Charlie
I think this is probably supposed to be played as a single jig in 6/8, but I'd be more inclined to play it as a slide. This is one of the first tunes I ever learnt. I was surprised it wasn't already posted. I always just assumed it was a Scottish tune, but apparently it's Irish. I'm afraid I don't know much more about the tune, other than that it's probably a relative of the Tap Room reel and its variants.
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by Dow
Like the name. Very... um... suggestive
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by Joe CSS
Not on here already?!?!!!
I can't believe this isn't on here already! Why on Earth not? I learnt this about 42 years ago, BEFORE I got interested in trad and stuff.
I must say, Dow, you have posted the classic version of this tune.
Well done for spotting the gap and plugging it.
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by benhall.1
Tune #250 ~ relativity ~ "The Road To Lisdoonvarna"
Key signature: E Dorian
Submitted on August 24th 2001 by Kerri Brown.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/250
If in a different order...
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by ceolachan
Yes, a similar tune. But nevertheless different.
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by Dow
Whatever happened to Kerri anyway? Kerri are you out there?
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
I'm astonished that there are no recordings listed for this tune. None on Alan Ng's database either - it just says it's in the Roche collection. I always assumed it was a common tune, but obviously it's not as well-known as I thought. Does anyone else apart from me and Ben play this?
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by Dow
This is how common I thought the tune was: I was taught it, aged 8, by a - very - Welsh peripatetic fiddle teacher by the name of John Harries, when I was growing up in South Wales.
It was one of only 2 trad tunes (I think only two ...) that he taught me - 'tother one being Ty Coch y Gaerdydd, as far as I recall ... in F ...
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by benhall.1
"Cock Your Pistol Charlie" ~ 1 of 2 (6/8 & 2/4) from Roche
"The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music"
Book II, page 21, #243
X: 2
T: Cock Your Pistol Charlie
L: 1/8
M: 6/8
R: jig
K: E Dorian
|: E2 e e2 f | g2 f e2 c | d2 B A2 F | D2 E F2 D |
E2 e e2 f | g2 f e2 c | d2 B A2 F | E3 E3 :|
|: E2 B B2 A | B2 A F2 A | d2 B A2 F | D2 E F2 D |
E2 B B2 A | B2 A F2 A | Bcd A2 F | E3 E3 :|
Almost no differences with the transcription given...
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by ceolachan
I suspect there are other names for it...
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by ceolachan
Lyrics?
So, which of you are going to add the lyrics?
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by ceolachan
Kerri Brown
http://www.kerribrown.uni.cc/site/page.php
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by ceolachan