Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on July 17th 2007 by domnull.
This tune has been added to 20 tunebooks.
Also known as Faery, Ferrie, The Ferry .
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Da Ferry
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
A|"D"vd2 ud(vA d2)d2 |"A"efed c2 A2 |"G"(Bc)dB "D"(AB)A(F|"Em"G2)E2 E3 A |
"D" d2 d(A d2)d2 |"A"efed c2 A2 |"G"(Bc)dB "A"(AG)FE |"D" D2 d2 d2 z:|
(e|"D" f2) f(d faf)(d| fg)a(g fe)d(f|"A" e2)e(c e2)e(c| ef)e(d cA)Ag |
"D" f2 f(d fa)f(d| fg)a(g fe)d(f|"Em"ef)g(f "A" ed)cB |"D" A2 d2 d2 z:|
Da Ferry reel
Another great Shetland reel, played as part of the Yell Reels set.
abc came from JC tunefinder, with some additional info:
X: 1
T:Da Ferry Reel
S:Tom Anderson and Pam Swing, Haand Me Doon Da Fiddle
C:Trad. Shetland
Z:Jack Campin 2002 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>; abcusers 2002-8-7
N:chords added by Jack Campin
# Posted on July 17th 2007 by domnull
Da Ferry reel
...additional comments from ibibio (Fiddler's Companion)
FERRIE REEL (Fairy Reel). Shetland, Reel. Shetland, Island of Yell. D Major. Standard. AABB. According to Tom Anderson (1978) the tune was one of the Yell tunes that were revived and played by Bobbie Jamieson and Willie Barclay Henderson. He identifies it as a trowie (troll) tune which tradition has it as heard emanating from a hole in the ground by a fiddler returning from performing at a wedding. Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 112, pg. 73. Topic 12TS379, Aly Bain & Tom Anderson ‑ "Shetland Folk Fiddling, Vol. 2" (1978).
# Posted on July 17th 2007 by domnull
Why did you just cut & paste it from another site, complete with copied slurs and chords? I'd have been more interested to see a transcription of your own take on it... just to make it a bit more personal or something. This just feels like a bland link to 2 other websites, as opposed to: "hey I have this tune, and this is how I play it, and this is why I like it".
# Posted on July 17th 2007 by Dow
Well, this transcription has Shetland style bowing on it but not Shetland-style chords.
What I'd like to know, though, is when is a link to another website bland and when is it not.
# Posted on September 3rd 2007 by DonaldK
Shetland-style chords?
Well you could try
|:D D/A|Em7 D/F#|G D/F#|Em7 A7|D D/A|Em7 A7|G A7| D D/A:|
|:D D/A|D Ebdim|Em G/D|A9/C# A7|D D/A|D Ebdim|Em7 A7|D D/A:|
In Shetland this would be written thus:
|:D A/D|Em7 F#/D|G F#/D|Em7 A7|D A/D|Em7 A7|G A7| D A/D:|
|:D A/D|D Ebdim|Em D/G|C#/A9 A7|D A/D|D Ebdim|Em7 A7|D A/D:|,
i.e., with the bass notes first.
# Posted on September 4th 2007 by DonaldK