Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on June 21st 2002 by MichaelBolton.
This tune has been added to 81 tunebooks.
Also known as Charley The Prayermaster, Cowboy, The Cowboy .
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Cowboy, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
BA |: GDE G2A | Bgf gdB | ABc BGA |
B2B AGE | GDE G2A | Bgf gdB|
ABc BGA |1 BGG GBA :|2 BGG GBd ||
|:e2e edB| egf edB | d2d d2d |
dge dBG |c2d e2d | egB A2e|
dBG B2A|1 BGG GBd :|2 BGG G3 ||
Cowboy Jig
Another tune first heard at the Dora Keogh in Toronto, with an especially nice, slightly bittersweet B section. Mind, I've never heard the B section the same way from any two different sources, so I picked what I thought was the prettiest one. I'd welcome a correction if anyone knows something authoritative.
---Michael B.
# Posted on June 21st 2002 by MichaelBolton
One more thing about the Cowboy Jig
...it's very similar indeed to Out in the Ocean, which I understand is considerably older.
---Michael B.
# Posted on June 21st 2002 by MichaelBolton
Great tune - I've heard this played by Alasdair Fraser and fell in love with it - Cheers!!
# Posted on June 23rd 2002 by Fiddlin Mad
Alasdair Fraser play this tune in Amaj
# Posted on April 19th 2003 by gian marco
Seems related to O'Sullivan's March: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2204
# Posted on November 25th 2006 by slainte
"Out on the Ocean" ~ for comparison
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/108
The B-part in particular, copied from Jeremy's transcription:
|: Bd |
e2 e edB | ege edB | d2B def | gfe dBA |
G2 A B2 d | ege d2 B | AGE G2 A | BGE G :|
# Posted on November 25th 2006 by ceolachan
History of tune?
I have heard this tune a couple of places, including Alasdair Fraser on the Road North, in A, and it's in G in the Portland Collection. I like it in a set with Calliope House. But does anyone know where it comes from, or what it's history is?
FM
# Posted on January 24th 2007 by full measure
Cowboy Jig
As "Charlie the Prayermaster" played by Addie Hsrper, Scottish fiddler:
X:322
T:Charley the Prayermaster
T:Cowboy Jig
D:Wick S.C.D., The Sound of the North (1970)
Z:Nigel Gatherer
L:1/8
M:6/8
K:A
B |AFE A2 B | cff ecB | AFE ABc | dcB AFE |
AFE A2 B | cff ecB | AFE A2 B | 1cAA A2 :| 2cAA Ace ||
f2 e f2 e | faf fec | e2 c e2 c | eaf ece |
f2 e f2 g | agf ecB |AFE A2 B | 1cAA Ace :| 2cAA A2 |]
# Posted on April 3rd 2007 by nigelg