I'd Rather Have A Piece Than A Kiss

jig

Key signature: Amixolydian

Submitted on February 5th 2008 by andy9876.

This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.

Also known as Bundle And Go, I'd Rather Have A Piss Than A Kiss, I's Rather Have A Piece Than A Kiss Of My Jo, Id Rather Have A Piss Than A Kiss, William's Return.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Bruach An TSuláin by The Abbey Céilí Band
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 9 by Matt Cunningham
• Fidil by Ciarán Ó Maonaigh And Aidan O'Donnell
• House Party by Máire O'Keefe
• Memoire Celte by Broken String
• Sharon Shannon by Sharon Shannon
• Spellbound by Sharon Shannon
• Stay Another While by Paul O'Shaughnessy And Frankie Lane
• Traditional Music On The Hammer Dulcimer by John Rea

X: 1
T: I'd Rather Have A Piece Than A Kiss
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Amix
|:f | gfe edB | gfg GAB | gfe edB | dBA A2f |
gfe edB | gfg a2b | gfe efg | dBA A2:|
|:B/c/ | d2B d2B | gfg GAB | d2B d2g | ecA ABc |
d2B d2B | gfg a2b | gfe efg | dBA A2 :|

A Piece of what, one may ask!

Methinks it's the cash (s)he's after - as in a Piece of Eight rather than a Piece of the Action - but who knows. This is another Joshua Jackson tune (JMS95) from the 1798 manuscript as edited by Bowen, Bowen, Sheperd and Sheperd, Yorkshire Dales Workshop 1998.

# Posted on February 5th 2008 by andy9876

"Oh, ye cannae throw PIECES oot a 20 storey flat........"
Adam McNaughton - look it up.

# Posted on February 5th 2008 by Kenny

I think it probably meant "p*ss" instead of "Piece"...

# Posted on February 5th 2008 by D.J.F.

Let's not get into urine fetishes here...

# Posted on February 5th 2008 by Joe CSS

Pieces

"Baps and paste and corned dog,
Peace on Earth and earth on PIECE,
Butcher's haugh and tinky's gauchles,
Wha' cid tell the difference ?"

Michael Marra - "Baps And Paste" - figured it out yet?

# Posted on February 5th 2008 by Kenny

Every wean in Scotland and Ulster would know what a "piece" is.

# Posted on February 6th 2008 by LongNote

More titles, mode

I've added a couple more titles, you can find it on JC's tune finder with 4 parts under the fuller title. It's known in Highland pipe versions as Bundle & Go (which is confusingly the name of a separate tune). I think the fuller versions derive from James Aird's published collection, late 18th c.

I question the A mixolydian classification, to me it's in G but closes on a non-tonic note. As written it's in G Lydian but this may be a forced byproduct of the pipe scale.

# Posted on February 6th 2008 by Matt Seattle

Duplicated!

I posted this a while back as William's Return (albeit a different version)

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6297

# Posted on February 6th 2008 by PaddyCmusic