Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on February 1st 2008 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Also known as Durham Gaol, Gabhaidh Sinn An Rathad Mor, Hey! Ho! Kafoozalem, Ka-Foo-Za-Lum, Ka-Foo-Zalum, The Kafoozalum Highland Fling, The Kafoozalum Highland Schottisch, Kathusalem, Rham Gaol; Old Mrs. Cuddledee, The Stewart’s March, Will You Go To Sheriff Muir.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Kafoozalum
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
|: d2 d>c B>c d2 | A>Bc>E A>Bc>e |
d2 d>c B>cd>D |[1 G>AB>G (3ABA G>B :|[2 G2 (3BAG A2 G>c ||
B>GD>G B>G d2 | c>AF>A c>A d2 |
B>GD>G B>Gd>B | G>A (3BAG (3ABA G>c |
B>GD>G B>GD>G | c>AF>A c>A (3FGA |
d2 d>c B>cd>D | G>DB>D A2 G2 |]
"Kafoozalum" ~ highland fling / schottische ~ played in G, A & D Major
This deserves a place of its own, but there is also a single reel version on site here, which I'll link to next. This old tune has done the mileage and I've found it in many places and traditions, with and without a second ending. I've given it here with a second ending, for the B-part, that concludes with the last two measures of the A-part. In this transcription I've written out all of the B-part in order to show other ways to take bars 1 & 2 of the second half, or 5 & 6 as given.
There are so many ways with this that I'm hoping others will offer a transcription of how they know it, personally or locally...
# Posted on February 1st 2008 by ceolachan
"Davy Maguire's Reel" ~ this as a single reel in D, no second ending
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on February 26th 2004 by gian marco.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2570
When slainte played a lovely recording of Harry Bradley and on this track I announced, "Hey, a fling!" ~ slainte immediately took Harry's side and denied any such association ~ it was, for that moment, purely a reel... Such is the power of influence.
"Kafoozalum" has been around a lot longer than the rename of "Davy Maguire's", but sometimes all we have to hold a tune by is the person we last heard play it, or who taught it to us. Maybe they forgot the name or didn't know it, or we forgot to ask. It has other names as well...
# Posted on February 1st 2008 by ceolachan
"Gabhaidh Sinn an Rathad Mor" / "The Stewart’s March" ~ history in A
X: 2
T: Gabhaidh Sinn an Rathad Mor
T: The Stewart’s March
B: "The Athole Collection", James Stewart Robertson, 1884, page 153
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: country dance
K: A Major
|: e>fe>d c>d e2 | B>cd>c B>c d2 | e>fe>d c>de>a |[1 A>Ac>A B2 A2 :|[2 A>Ac>A B2 A>B ||
c>BA>B c>A c2 | d>cB>c d>B d2 | c>BA>B c>Ac>e | A>Ac>A B2 A>B |
c>A (3ABA c>A c2 | d>B (3BcB d>B d2 | c>A (3ABA c>Ac>a | A>Bc>A B2 A2 |]
# Posted on February 1st 2008 by ceolachan
R: country dance / march / highland schottische / highland fling
And as we've seen from the previous link, the way many such tunes have served other duty, also known as a single reel...
# Posted on February 1st 2008 by ceolachan
"Kafoozalum" ~ Fiddler's Companion ~ Andrew Kuntz
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/KA.htm
This melody is reported to have been played by the Stewart clan pipers at the battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715. In a still earlier martial connection, Charles Stewart in his Killin Collection suggests (without verification) that this is the same "Stewart's March" said to have been piped at the battle of Pinkie in 1547. Scottish, Pipe Tune. It is perhaps the tune (under the title “Suan agus Lagan”) played by Alexander Lamon, piper to the Laird of Lamont, at the annual piping competition (originally the Falkirk Tryst) held at the Assembly hall, Edinburgh in October 1784 (as reported in the period journal Scots Magazine). To modern ears the tune is unmistakably the children's game-song "London Bridge is Falling Down," which has its origins as a Welsh 'penillion', or standard-tune, for use in traditional singing contests for improvising children's songs. A derivative of the melody is "Will You Go to Sheriffmiur?" published in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion of the 1750's.
# Posted on February 1st 2008 by ceolachan
"Stewart's March" ~ description above ~ "Kafoozalum" below
Highland Schottische. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The tune is quite similar to "The Stewart's March" and "London Bridge is Falling Down" family of tunes. The title of from a humorous stage piece called "Ka Foozle-Um" which was written by S. Oxon and published in New York in 1866. The song is a mock-Oriental piece like "Abdulla Bulbul Ameer" which became popular in college songsters of the 1870's and 1880's. Curious, Cazden (1982) points out, since it is so derivative of the Scottish original, is that the melody became known by the American title in Britain in the later 19th century and was so published in Kerr's collection; Peter Kennedy's volume 100 English Folk Dance Tunes (1951) gives the title "London Bridge (Ka-foo-zalum)".
# Posted on February 1st 2008 by ceolachan
We follow it with Keel Row, Washing Day then up a notch into Orange and Blue.
# Posted on February 1st 2008 by geoffwright
"Kafoozalum" ~ no second ending, simplified, 3 keys, +> & ->
X: 1134
T: Kafoozalum
T: Ka-Foo-Za-Lum
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: country dance / march / highland schottische / highland fling / single reel
K: G Major
|: d2 d>c B>c d2 | A>Bc>B A>B c2 | d2 d>c B>c d2 | G>AB>G A2 G2 :|
|: B>GD>G B>G B2 | c>AE>A c>A c2 | B>GD>G B>G B2 | G>AB>G A2 G2 :|
K: A Major
|: e2 e>d c>d e2 | B>cd>c B>c d2 | e2 e>d c>d e2 | A>Bc>A B2 A2 :|
|: c>AE>A c>A c2 | d>BF>B d>B d2 | c>AE>A c>A c2 | A>Bc>A B2 A2 :|
K: D Major
|: a2 a>g f>g a2 | e>fg>f e>f g2 | a2 a>g f>g a2 | d>ef>d e2 d2 :|
|: f>dA>d f>d f2 | g>ec>e g>e g2 | f>dA>d f>d f2 | d>ef>d e2 d2 :|
K: G Major
|: d2 dc Bc d2 | ABcB AB c2 | d2 dc Bc d2 | GABG A2 G2 :|
|: BGDG BG B2 | cAEA cA c2 | BGDG BG B2 | GABG A2 G2 :|
K: A Major
|: e2 ed cd e2 | Bcdc Bc d2 | e2 ed cd e2 | ABcA B2 A2 :|
|: cAEA cA c2 | dBFB dB d2 | cAEA cA c2 | ABcA B2 A2 :|
K: D Major
|: a2 ag fg a2 | efgf ef g2 | a2 ag fg a2 | defd e2 d2 :|
|: fdAd fd f2 | gece ge g2 | fdAd fd f2 | defd e2 d2 :|
# Posted on February 1st 2008 by ceolachan
Geoff, do you swing them? And what sort of dances do you play the set for?
# Posted on February 1st 2008 by ceolachan
What about a transcription?
# Posted on February 1st 2008 by ceolachan
Kafoozalum
We play it in D between Orange and Blue and Wee Willie Winkie for a Schottische.
Dow has the words for it!
# Posted on February 1st 2008 by hotspur
Indeed you are right. I played this tune for a great old box player with whom I frequently play for sets and ceilis. As soon as I finished the reel, he played his highland version of it.
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by LongNote
Dow has words? This I gotta see if not hear...
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by ceolachan
Kafoozalum
Tthe name is possibly an anglicisation of the Scots Gaelic "Cia Phosaidh Leum" - "Who Will Marry Me?" This may also link with songs which go with the tune, such as this from Len Graham:
Love will you marry me
Marry me, marry me
Love will you marry me
And keep me from all danger.
These lyrics and other words also go with a similar tune, "Johnny Will You Marry Me" http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1990. There is further discussion about "Love will you marry me" at
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/15096
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by nigelg
Kafoozalum
I've just seen this tune coincidentally in Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6 (c.1755), as "Will You Go To Sheriff Muir".
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by nigelg
Geoff Wright ~ piano accordion, anglo & english concertina ~
~ & band leader for 'Bracken Rigg Band':
http://www.brackenrigg.co.uk/ ~ a traditional fiddle and accordion band mad on Irish and Scottish trad., various lineups, playing regularly for barn dances around Doncaster in the North of England for some 30 years. The 'Bracken Rigg Band' also specialises in Northumbrian music. In the past they have played for old-time, sequence, sing-songs, bier-keller and various other continental accordion genre...
Hi C.
We would play those for a Highland Schottische and yes we swing it a lot (like a strathspey but a fair bit faster). We do Scottish ceilidh so at most gigs are playing Schottische, Canadian Barn Dance, Boston Two Step, Dashing White Seargent, Gei Gordons, Eightsome Reel, St. Bernard's Waltz ~ etc.
Cheers ~ geoffwright
X: 7
T: Kafoozalum
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
Q: 300
K: G Major
|: B>c |\
d2 d>c B>c d2 | A>Bc>B A>B c2 |
d>ed>c B>cd>B | G>AB>G A2 :|
|: G>A |\
B>GD>G B<G B2 | c>AE>A c<A c2 |
B>GD>G B>G B2 | G>AB>G A2 :|
Thanks Geoff, & Nigel ~ as always, much appreciated...
# Posted on February 4th 2008 by ceolachan
Hmm, obviously I'm not familiar with the "Love Will You Marry Me" lyrics. The ones I'm more familiar with are more along the lines of the ones in the following link:
http://www.drinkingsongs.net/html/categorized-by-song/with-music/k/kafoozalum-%5Bas-learned-by-dick-greenhaus%5D.htm
Warning: do not click on the link if you are easily offended!
# Posted on February 4th 2008 by Dow
Here's another equally horrible version
http://www.drinkingsongs.net/html/categorized-by-song/with-music/k/kathusalem.htm
# Posted on February 4th 2008 by Dow
This tune, known to me as Durham Gaol, (misprinted in "another name" as Rham Gaol) was commonly played by several bands in London in the '60's along with Nae Good Luck Aboot The Hoose and The Keel Row. I still play that set occasionally.
# Posted on February 4th 2008 by oldstrings
# Posted on February 4th 2008 by ceolachan