Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on January 25th 2008 by fidkid.
This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.
Also known as The Ducks In The Oats, John Mahinney's No. 2, Na Lachain Sa Choirce.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Ducks And The Oats, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
A2 |:B | cBc A2 G | EcB cde | dcA A2 B | cde ged |
cBc A2 G | EcB cde |dcA AGE | EDD D2 :|
|:g| efg ged | cAB cde | eaa age | ed^c d3 |
efg ged | cAB cde | dcA AGE | EDD D2 :|
Not "The Tenpenny Bit"
I experienced a bit of confusion with this tune. Listening to John and Julia Clifford’s cassette “The Humours of Lisheen” on side 2, track 3, I recognized the second tune of the set, named “The Ducks and the Oats” on the recording, as as the same as one I learned from Yvonne Kane as “The Tenpenny Bit”.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4180
I even added Ducks/Oats as an alternate names for that tune.
The friend who’d lent the cassette pointed out that she’d learned the FIRST tune in the set, named on the recording as “John Mahinney’s No. 2”, as “The Ducks and the Oats” from both Liz and Yvonne Kane. This submission is from my friend’s transcription (she’s a lurker here and prefers to remain anonymous).
Also, there’s a setting of this tune from Denis Murphy in the Breandan Breathnach Ceol Rince na hEireann Book 5, tune number 58, also named “The Ducks and the Oats”.
I think the best conclusion is that the notes on the album are in error.
Denis Murphy had a verse with this tune, beginning:
“The ducks in the oats and no-one to turn them,
Ó, muise, Dia linn, what will we do with 'em...”
# Posted on January 25th 2008 by fidkid
Duplicated
I know this as Brian O'Lynn: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4139
# Posted on January 25th 2008 by slainte