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She Hasn't The Thing She Thought She Had

slide

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on July 8th 2007 by ceolachan.

This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.

Also known as An Uile-Íoc, Perfect Cure, The Perfect Cure, The Sprockers Tail.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Round The House And Mind The Dresser: Irish Country House Dance Music by Various Artists

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X: 1
T: She Hasn't The Thing She Thought She Had
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: Dmaj
A2 G | FGA D2 d c2 B A2 G | FGA D2 F E3- E2 G |
FGA D2 d c2 B A2 G | FAF EFE D3- D2 E |
FEF DFd c2 B A2 G | FAF D2 F E3 E2 G |
FAF D2 d c2 B A2 G | FAF EFE D3- D2 ||
e | f2 e d2 A Bcd AFA | f2 e d2 f e3- e2 e |
f2 e d2 A BdB A2 G | FAF EFE D3- D2 e |
f2 e d2 A Bcd AFA | f2 e d2 f e3- e2 e |
fef d2 A Bcd A2 G | FDF GEC D3 ||

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"She Hasn't The Thing She Thought She Had"

Here's one of those promised single jig / slide melodies I've been enjoying lately. This transcription is taken from the playing of Gene Kelly, melodeon. I've included the repeats so I could offer up some of his variations on the tune. I've been playing it for awhile but went searching for a recording I could transcribe from, rather than just giving my own take on it. I was pleasantly surprised to find I don't play it much different from Gene Kelly, and that brought a chuckle...even down to the variations...

Notes from the linked to compilation in the 'Details', "Round the House and Mind the Dresser: Irish Country-House Dance Music" says the two tunes, this one for the 'Set' and the polka "The Cat in the Corner", also for the 'Set', were recorded by Bill Leader & Reg Hall at the Park Lane Hotel, London, on the 30th of August, 1968... Great music for dancing a set... :-)

# Posted on July 8th 2007 by ceolachan

I wish I had the lyrics to offer up for this, but maybe someone else will ~ I hope...

# Posted on July 8th 2007 by ceolachan

"She Hasn't The Thing She Thought She Had" ~ a few other options

# Posted on July 8th 2007 by ceolachan

Gene Kelly, like in days of old, only played one tune per figure of a 'Set of Quadrilles' (square set), not sets of tunes. He brought this one to a close in a usual fashion ~ | FDF GEC D3 D3 ||

# Posted on July 8th 2007 by ceolachan

"The Perfect Cure" single jig

Here be a relative. Peter Kennedy published a version of this tune in his Fiddler's Tune Book vol II copyright 1954 (English Folk Dance & Song Society) My version is very close to his and I have had it over 30 years.
T: The Perfect Cure
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: single Jig
K: D major
G ||: FGA D2d | c2B A2G | FGA D2F | E3-EAG | FGA D2d | c2B A2G | FGA B2c | d3-d2 :||
e ||: fed e2c | dcB A3 | fed e2f | g3 f2e | fed e2c | dcB A2G | FGA B2c | d3-d2 :||

This will always be a single jig in my book and I am of the opinion that single jig does not automatically mean slide. each to its own merits but I will acknowledge that the slidiness will depend on the structure, playing Perfect Cure faster does not turn it into a slide.
I was surprised 'c' that you had not already linked these two together.

# Posted on July 10th 2007 by hetty

Perfect Cure

I thought I recognised this - nearly - but I hadn't made the connection. Thanks hetty.

# Posted on July 10th 2007 by spindizzy

I know what you mean Hetty, this does however get mixed into sets with slides and given a pronounced 12/8 phrasing rather than the clearer barred feeling of 6/8 a 'pure' single jig bounces to. Slides and single jigs are favourites of my wife's. I remember putting her notebook together for her, tunes and chords, and the imbalance was pronounced. More than half of those she wanted in her book were just that. Out of keeping with the norm of others, reels only made up probably at most 20%... Another reason, our of many, for loving her ~ ;-)

# Posted on July 11th 2007 by ceolachan

~ I meant to say ~ nought keeping with the norm...!

# Posted on July 11th 2007 by ceolachan

Single Jigs

My brother, Gerry recorded a lively version of this as a SJ. I've been teaching it (with words - ahem!!) to the amusement of many and love it as a Sing.Jig. Blast dem that change SJ into Slides. Kerry men de lot of 'em.
Peter

# Posted on August 6th 2007 by Peter O'Connor

Schottishe????

Played fast enough, with the right enthasis and triplets we also have a good dancable hop step tune. a Schottishe possibly?

# Posted on October 4th 2007 by hetty

dancable = danceable

# Posted on October 4th 2007 by hetty

Slides and Single Jigs ~

Peter, slides and single jigs are the same species... Slides are 'single jigs', but the choice favours those that have a strong 12/8 phrasing, but that doesn't change the fact that they are 'single jigs', one in the same, they are and have been and always will be...

So, where's your lyrics? :-/

# Posted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan

She hasn't ......

# Posted on October 5th 2007 by spindizzy

"The Sprockers Tail" ~ duplication rescued?

Key signature: D Major
Submitted on October 2nd 2007 by whirlinmerlin.
~ /tunes/display/7810

X: 1
T: The Sprockers Tail
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: D Major
|: A2 G |
FGA D2 d | c2 B A2 G | FGA D2 F | E3 A2 G |
FGA D2 d | c2 B A3 | Bcd e2 c | d3 :|
|: d2 e |
f2 d Adf | e2 c A3 | B2 G DGB | A3 d2 e |
f2 d Adf | e2 c A3 | Bcd e2 c | d3 :|

~ whirlinmerlin contributed this without comment...

# Posted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan

While whirlinmerlin had nothing to say in the comments for the rescued ~

Others did, and here follow those contributions... ;-)

# Posted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan

"Perfect Cure"

I have this tune as the Perfect Cure. Good dance tune, used it regularly for a very long time.

It almost sounds to me that the differences in bars 7 & 8 of both A & B musics could be put down to them being harmonies (I'm biased so "Sprockers" becomes the harmony for "TPC")

I've always known this as a single jig (not slide) and considered it to be a Scottish tune.

# Posted on October 4th 2007 by hetty

# Posted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan

"Sprockers Tail" / "Perfect Cure" / "She Hasn't The Thing She Thought She Had"

This is another "Perfect Cure" - B parts slightly different (I picked this one up at a workshop - I think it's Martin Ellison's version - see:
http://jubileeconcertinas.org/page10.htm

# Posted on October 5th 2007 by spindizzy

# Posted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan

LYRICS ~ ???

Come on already, where's the lyrics???

# Posted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan

"The Perfect Cure" ~ notes courtesy of 'The Fiddler's Companion' ~ Andrew Kuntz

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/PEA_PER.htm#PERFECT_CURE

English, Irish; Single Jig. D Major (Kennedy, Raven): G Major (Williamson). Standard. AABB. Paul Burgess (Tradtunes list 09.06.06) writes that this tune was originally a ‘novelty jumping song’ performed by J.H. Stead at various music halls in London, and cites one such venue as Weston’s Music Hall (later the Hackney Empire) in the 1850’s. It was composed as a ‘novelty schottische’, although the dotted duple rhythm has since been altered to triple time (a common enough occurrence in aurally learned traditional music). Burgess writes that the chorus to the song began: “Oh, I’m the Perfect Cure…”, which became a popular expression in Victorian London. Alfred Rosling Bennet, in his 1924 reminiscence London and Londoners in the Eighteen-Fifties and Sixties [Chapter VI, Street Entertainers] remembered: “About 1860 came Stead with his ‘Perfect Cure’, which raged through the land like an influenza. We had a lot of musical education since then, but what modern composition has rivalled the renown of that to-all-appearance silly production? In later years it was stated that this popular performed was a relative of Mr. ‘Pall-Mall’ Stead” (a reference to the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette from 1883 to 1880, William Thomas Stead). It has been suggested that spirits and other intoxicants (such as laudanum) are ‘the perfect cure.’ ~

Breathnach styles the melody as a single jig in 12/8 time. It is played as a slide in County Kerry. The first part of the double jig “Long John’s Wedding” and “Long John’s Wedding March” are the same, although the second parts are not. See also the Orkney Islands tune “The Rope Waltz” for a tune with similar melodic material. ~

# Posted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan

She Hasn't..

I love this tune and have been teaching it for some years along with "the day that the donkey ran away". Great for low intermediate pupils.
It's on my bro' Gerry's album " The Journeyman"
I sing -'She hasn't the thing she thought she had, she hasnt the thing at all. Repeat 1st and fine and maybe that's so bad'
Peter

# Posted on October 5th 2007 by Peter O'Connor

"She Hasn't The Thing She Thought She Had" ~ another rescued duplication

Key signature: D Major
Submitted on September 6th 2008 by deeor.
~ /tunes/display/8891

Mrs Martin's slide: This tune was discovered in Mrs Martin's papers by her son Dr Donald Martin of Killybegs. It isn't clear whether she had composed it or transcribed it, although the latter is more likely.

# Posted on September 6th 2008 by deeor

~ & a lovely simple version of it... 'c'

# Posted on September 7th 2008 by ceolachan