A Trip To The Lakes

jig

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on May 22nd 2008 by nicholas.

This tune has been added to 21 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

A Trip To The Lakes: Traditional Cumbrian Tunes by The Boat Band

X: 1
T: A Trip To The Lakes
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
d|:gfg dBG|ABc BAG|gfg ABc|BGB dBd|
gfg dBG|ABc BAG|gfg ABc|BGG G2d:|
|:gfg dBd|gfg ece|gfg dBG|ABc BAG|
gfg dBd|gfg ece|ABc Bed|1 BGG G2d:|2 BGG G2A||
|:BGG cGG|eGG d3 |ded cBA|Bdc BAG|
BGG cGG|eGG d3 |ded cBA|1 BGG G2A:|2 BGG G3||

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

A Trip To The Lakes

A nice three-part jig I got from The Boat Band's album "A Trip To The Lakes", a collection of trad tunes played in the past and present in the English Lake District.

It sounds quintessentially Irish, and may turn out to be a version of an Irish tune that's already on here.

# Posted on May 22nd 2008 by nicholas

I learnt in A from a lady called Carolyn Francis and it is definitely a lakeland tune - though she'd put it into A to be played on border pipes

# Posted on May 25th 2008 by Lucy Janet

Trip to the Lakes

I got this one from George Partington who was, I believe, the person who got it from the original manuscripot. I think he said it was in the RVW library at cecil Sharp House.

Anyway, it was a lakeland tune at the end of the 18th century, so the Irishnerss of it is very distant. If it sounds irish, try slowing down and taking triplets differently. In English stuff from the north of England of this age, the first of the three is long and srteals time from the second, the third is pretty much in the right place.

It certainly doesn't sound at all Irish the way George plays it.

Noel

# Posted on May 27th 2008 by noelbats

I agree! I didn't think that it sounded Irish at all

and if RVW collected it that makes it even better in my books =]

# Posted on July 15th 2008 by Lucy Janet

Return Trip to the Lakes

I came across this thread by accident, and since my name is mentioned, (incidentally Noel, it's Chris, as George is my middle name only ;-) ) I thought I'd toss my Amaj version in. It's much easier on the fiddle than the original Fmaj or the Gmaj.
BTW, note that the MS is thought to come from Frank Kidson's collection of fiddler's MS kept in the VWML at C# House, and circumstantial evidence puts it in Yorkshire at the end of the 18thC, not the Lakes as the title would suggest.

# Posted on April 2nd 2009 by Chrisp