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Thread #42222   Message #616545
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
26-Dec-01 - 12:48 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
1430)   THE HAGGIS OF DUNBAR  The DT file contains four variations of this little piece, from Scotland and Northern England.  No mention is made of a tune, but there is a reel of the same name which appeared in The Athole Collection (James Stewart Robertson, 1884).  Obviously, I don't know if the tune was ever associated with any of the texts -or with any other- but the coincidence of a rather unusual name does suggest it.  Midi made from the notation in that book; the texts fit the "A" part of the music well enough, and it has been necessary only to remove one pickup note from the end of the fourth bar, doubling the duration of the previous note.

1912)   JUG OF PUNCH 2  The DT file was transcribed from one of the Caedmon/Topic Folksongs of Britain LP series.  The song in question was recorded by Peter Kennedy and S. O'Boyle from both Margaret Loughram and Edward Quinn at Castlecaulfield, Co. Tyrone in 1952; the DT file mentions Quinn but not Loughram, so presumably it is his set that appeared on the record, though Kennedy tended to splice different recordings of songs together, and parts of both may have been included (I haven't heard it for years, and don't remember).  Kennedy included Loughram's set in his Folksongs of Britain and Ireland (1975); the texts are virtually identical, though the form of the nonsense words in the refrain is a little different, and verse 3 line 1 in the DT ends with desire; Loughram sang endure, which makes better sense.  Midi made from the notation in that book; the embedded lyric is Loughram's version.