Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on October 7th 2007 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 20 tunebooks.
Also known as Rantin' Roarin' Willie, Rantin' Roarin' Willy, Rantin', Roarin' Willie, Rantin', Roarin' Willy, Rantin, Roarin Willie, Rantin, Roarin Willy, Ranting Roaring Willie, Ranting Roaring Willy, Rattlin Roarin Willie, Rattlin Roarin Willy, Rattlin' Roarin' Willie, Rattlin' Roarin' Willy, Rattlin’, Roarin’ Willy, Rattling Roaring Willie, Rattling Roaring Willy.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Rattlin', Roarin' Willie
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Dmix
|: B |
AFD DED F>AB | cBc EcE G2 B |
AFD DF/E/D F>A^c | d^cd FDF A2 B/c/ |
dcB AFD F>AB | cBc EcE G2 E |
D2 d F2 D F>Ad | FD/E/F EcE D2 :|
|: B |
AFD dFD A>FD | EcE GcE G2 B |
AFD dFD F>A^c | d^cd FD/E/F A2 B/c/ |
dcB AFD F>AB | cBc EcE G2 E |
D2 d F2 D F>Ad | FDF EcE D2 :|
"Rattlin', Roarin' Willy(ie)" ~ played in D, G & A Mixolydian
Yes, I know, so hold off Dow, slainte and the rest of ye buzzards... This carcase is a fresh kill...both barrells, in two keys...
I will be adding more, a bit of history and links to relatives, as well as a slew of alternate names. However, I am expecting, or hoping, that someone Northumbrian way, or Dow, will do justice to another relative in 9/4... It deserves that consideration don't yuh think?
# Posted on October 7th 2007 by ceolachan
D Mixolydian, take 1 ~ Discussion: What One Octave Tunes in D exist?
# Posted on September 19th 2007 by Sarah the Flute
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/15202
# Posted on October 7th 2007 by ceolachan
Lyrics
O rattlin’, roarin’ Willie O he held tae the fair
For tae sell his fiddle and buy some other ware,
But partin’ with his fiddle a salt tear blin’t his eye.
Rattlin’, roarin’ Willie you’re welcome home tae me.
O, Willie come sell your fiddle, O sell your fiddle sae fine.
Willie come sell your fiddle and buy a pint o’ wine.
“If I should sell my fiddle the world would think I was mad
For many a rantin’ day my fiddle and I hae had.”
As I came by Crochallan, I cannily keekit ben,
Rattlin’, roarin’ Willie was sitting at yon board en’.
Sitting at yon board-en’ amang guid company.
Rattlin’ roarin’ Willie ye’re welcome home tae me.
I believe the first verse/ chorus are traditional, then Robbie Burns added the last verse.
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by treecipitation
Duplicated
(see the comments section) http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1757
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by Dow
Yeah, right, like I hadn't already... Thanks for nothing...
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
???
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by Dow
~ seen the comments section...previously known about tune #1757... Did you bother to read the comments that preceed your 'great revelation'?
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
~ Up at the very top, that first comment!?
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
'c', I don't know what you're talking about.
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by Dow
Obviously...
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
"Yes, I know, so hold off Dow, ~
Duh?!
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
"I am expecting, or hoping, that someone Northumbrian way, or Dow, will do justice to another relative in 9/4... It deserves that consideration don't yuh think?" ~ hmmmm...
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
Obviously 'consideration' is missing altogether, eh?
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
I already transcribed it in 9/4 ages ago. I don't understand what you're raving on about. ???
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by Dow
We have been here before, with a certain 7-step...
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
So, you obviously, as already said in one word, don't understand... Ah well, I tried... I hoped... But in vain, eh...
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
But the 7-steps were different tunes.
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by Dow
I give up...
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
C to C ~ D Mixolydian, bars 2 & 6 of the A-part, for example ~ ECE
I see that so far the only transcription that has converted is the on in D Mixolydian. It was transcribed for tune limited instruments that generally can't reach the middle C. There are a few instances where I've given it up an octave, and I quite like that jump, but you can also play it down to the C...
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
"Rattlin', Roarin' Willy(ie)" ~ G Mixolydian
That interval direction and other options are illustrated here ~
X: 1
T: Rattlin', Roarin' Willie
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: G Mixolydian
|: d |
B2 G GAG B2 e | fcA F2 A c2 e |
B2 G GAG B2 ^f | g2 G G2 B d2 ^f |
g^fe dBG B/c/de | f2 c A2 F c2 e |
dB/c/d e2 d Bd/e/^f | gGB AFA G2 :|
|: e |
d2 G gBG dBG | AFA fAF c2 e |
d2 G gBG dBG | gfe dBG dd/e/^f |
g^fe dB/A/G B/c/de | fef A2 B c2 e |
dBG e2 d e<gd | B2 B AF/G/A G2 :|
I think the differences with the half-a-tune linked to above by Dow, the 'song', should be obvious...
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
RRWillie
I wrote quite extensively on this tune in the Core Tunes section of the FARNE website. I don't know if that stuff was referenced here before.
One thing I was convinced of from studying some of the earliest and (IMO) most authoritative versions of this tune is that it's not *quite* a mixolydian tune in essence, in that the middle beat of the last bar of each strain is based on the dominant, not the subtonic chord, and the 7th of the scale, if present, is sharp. William Dixon's bagpipe version neatly avoids the note.
Great tune in any case, and there really are loads of versions.
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by Matt Seattle
FARNE ~ Folk Archive Resource North East
http://www.asaplive.com/FARNE/Home.cfm
Learn
http://www.asaplive.com/FARNE/Learn.cfm
Core Tunes
http://www.asaplive.com/FARNE/Learn.cfm?ccs=229
Rattlin' Roarin' Willie
http://www.asaplive.com/FARNE/Learn.cfm?ccs=229&cs=963
Thanks heaps Matt. I keep forgetting to nod in that direction. FARNE is a fabulous, priceless resource, much appreciated...
There you go Dow, a constructive comment. Yes, I'm a grouch these last few days, I think I'm coming down with something, but traffic jams and you poking me in the ribs doesn't help...
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
Correction ~ | gfe dB/A/G B/c/de | ~
The previous version in G, the B-part, bar 5 should not start with the f# / ^f, but as natural. Only ascending to f leads to it being sharp, f# / ^f, and as you can see that only happens in the second octave...
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
"Rattlin, Roarin Willie" ~ courtesy of the FARNE site & Matt Seattle
X: 3
T: Rattlin, Roarin Willie
S: Scots Musical Museum, published by James Johnson, 1777
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: G
|: d |
B2 G GAG Bde | =f2 c AFA c2 d |
B3 GGA GBd | gfg B2 c d2 e/f/ |
gfg dBG Bde | =f2 c AFA c2 e |
dBd e2 d egd | BGB AFA G3 :|
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
"Rattlin' Roarin' Willie" ~ song / slip jig in 1 part
Key signature: G Mixolydian
Submitted on June 16th 2003 by cj.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1757
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1757/comments
Other transcriptions, 9/8 & 9/4, and a set of words, can be found in the 'comments'...
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
Haha check your e-mail old fool
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by Dow
Unhhh! ~ now you have me scared, and I'm already feeling like shight. Really, I feel awful right now... I hope this isn't the flu...
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
'Old' fool?
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by ceolachan
Middle-aged fool then
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by Dow
Well, you can't be that badly p*ssed if you're able to string a sentence and a thought together, however simple, though I did notice the full stop is missing.
Get away from the keyboard, you can't afford to get sick all over it...
# Posted on October 9th 2007 by ceolachan
I'm p*ssed enough to make a prank phone call to the Australian Department of Immigration pretending to be a transsexual having problems filling in their forms for citizenship! You don't even know how lucky you are not to have spoken to me today
# Posted on October 9th 2007 by Dow
Well let's hope Immigration doesn't have caller i.d.....
# Posted on October 9th 2007 by Will CPT
I managed to get through to bb twice after insisting that she was my case officer, even though she doesn't work in the citizenship department. bb dealt with me very well actually, but I hope I didn't get her the sack...
# Posted on October 9th 2007 by Dow
LOL, well I'll remember that she works in immigration when I apply for my visa to come haunt your session for years on end.....
# Posted on October 9th 2007 by Will CPT
Pleaes tabby, go put the poor lad straight, or crooked as may needs be... Your ears should have been on fire the day the two of us cracked the Hendricks...
# Posted on October 9th 2007 by ceolachan
Hey Dow, I also have a curious single thread version of this tune I've dug out and will be adding in the 'comments' for that other...
# Posted on October 9th 2007 by ceolachan
You do that. I promise not to interfere or even mention it, even behind your back. What you submit to the database is your business!
# Posted on October 9th 2007 by Dow
Everything you need on ranting roaring willie
http://www.lbps.net/RRW/index.htm
# Posted on June 12th 2008 by Gfiddler
Thanks Gfiddler ~ & the poor man's fate too ~
http://www.lbps.net/RRW/willie.htm
# Posted on July 3rd 2008 by ceolachan