Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on October 23rd 2007 by Dow.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as Humours Of Mount Collins, The Humours Of Mount Collins, I'll Paddle My Own Canoe, Mad Dancing, Paddle My Own Canoe.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: If I Had A Wife
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: Gmaj
B2A ABd e2d d2B|AGA B2A G2D D2A|
B2A ABd e2d d2B|1 AGA B2A G3 G2A:|2 AGA B2A G3 gfe||
|:d2g gfg age dBd|e2a aba g2a bge|
d2g gfg age dBd|1 efg aba g3 gfe:|2 efg aba g3 G2A||
If I Had A Wife
From the playing of Johnny O'Leary.
# Posted on October 23rd 2007 by Dow
I just couldn't believe this wasn't already here, but I've tried three keys and several takes on bar one, but nope, so far, no sign of a duplication... How did we miss this lovely little number? What other treasure is there for us to add here?
# Posted on October 23rd 2007 by ceolachan
Paddle my own canoe
Its also on Chieftains 6 as a song (they learnt it from Dennis Murphy).
If I had a wife, the plague of my life,
I'll tell you what I would do,
I'd buy her a boat and set her afloat
and paddle my own canoe.
I read elsewhere it is also called the Humours of Mount Collins
# Posted on October 24th 2007 by geoffwright