Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on July 11th 2002 by Mark Cordova.
This tune has been added to 29 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Log Cabin, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmix
A,D~D2 FGAB|=c2 DE FGA^c|d2^cd BdAF|
GEFD EFDB,|A,D~D2 FGAB|=c2 DE FGA^c|
d2^cd BdAF|1 GFEG FDDB,:|2 GFEG FD~D2||
|:d2fd Adfd|g2fg egfe|d2fd AB=cA|
GE~E2 =CDEG|d2fd Adfd|(3B^cd ef g2ag|
f2e^c dBAG|1 FGEF D4:|2 FGEF ~D3B,||
Where did I hear this?
Perhaps one of you folk who were collecting for the last 20 years know the discography. I heard it played at a session. It was both familiar and good. I never transcribed it myself so I came here to find it. I managed to find a copy of it on http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/index/wwabc.html
I love that index.
As a fiddler, I typically change those quarter note rolls on open string to triplets.
Enjoy,
Mark
# Posted on July 11th 2002 by Mark Cordova
Where I heard Log Cabin
In the mid-80's Log Cabin was a tune we heard a lot in the Boston Contra Dance scene. I learned it then and continue to play it.
It was recorded by DeDanann about that time and I don't remember the name of that recording. It appears in the middle one of those big medley's and they play it about twice through.
The name makes me wonder if it was really Irish in origin but I've never heard it in any other form.
Thanks for putting this one up for us.
Will in New Mexico
# Posted on July 14th 2002 by willmac
This isin't precisely how De Danann played it, instead of lingering on that C in the first part they played a BCD triplet. This is how I learned it, from a student of Joe Cooley's.
# Posted on September 21st 2004 by Kevin Rietmann
Sprucing the place up to make the North Americans feel at home ~
What? No log cabins in good ol' Eire? You're kiddin...
~ what with all those imported saplings growing up and turning it into a safe acidic haven for spruce and other non-native species? Before you know it they'll be speaking Inuit and Norwegian... Hell, there's that kit A-frame at the head of the bay on Inis Bofin, I mean, how Canada can you get?
# Posted on February 25th 2006 by ceolachan
According to the sleeve notes of Angelina Carberry's solo recording, this tune derives from the song air called The Little Thatched Cabin.
# Posted on February 25th 2006 by slainte