G'day again John,
Your enquiry has haunted me for the past three days! I was surprised, for a start, that I don't seem to be able to find a single recording of Graham's song ... yet I could remember quite a bit of it ... and "hear" Graham singing it ...
Sundry e-mails betweem myself and the good Professor never established the name of the (presumably Irish) tune Graham recycled ... and I've gradually dredged up my memory ... from some very verdigrised grey cells. This is my attempt to pin it down to a set of coherent "dots" - converted in Alan of Oz's now "No Longer Supported By Mudcat" MIDIText app. (If you don't have a workable copy of Alan's program ... well, you can, at least, grab the ABC notation and either read it (if you are that way inclined) - or drop it into the free converter (on Concertina.net ... ?) and get it as dots ... or a MIDI.
Otherwise, you could PM me your own e-mail - and I'll send you a MIDI and "dots" from my music program.
Incidentally, the "Irish" tag may turn out to be (appropriately) a bit of a Furphy ... My final notation makes the tune out as a very minorish (modulating) Myxolydian mode ("D" initial and final notes ... in the natural scale of "G".) - and that is much more characteristically Scottish.
Regards,
Bob
MIDI file: humpdrum.mid
Timebase: 240
TimeSig: 3/4 24 8
Tempo: 120 (500000 microsec/crotchet)
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ABC format:
X:1
T:
M:3/4
Q:1/4=120
K:C
D6|E4A2|B4AG|A4GA|B5A|B2AG3|E4E2|D6|-D4D2|
E4A2|B4AG|A4GA|B5A|B4AG|E4E2|D6|-D4D2|A4B2|
c4dc|B4AG|E2E2^FG|A4B2|c4dc|B6|-B5D|E4A2|
B4AG|A4B2|B5A|B2AG3|E4E2|D6|-D2||