Tune Req: Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk

Subject: Tune? Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From: Hg
Date: 07 Apr 97 - 05:04 PM

I'm looking for the tune to a song listed in Digital Traditions as "Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk". I've also heard it called "Rolling Home Drunk" and "Mickey".

The listing in the database says it's been recorded by Sheila Stewart but I haven't the foggiest how to find the recording.

I'll settle for any method of tune transmission: reference to recording or book, abc, whatever.

Hg [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Tune? Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 07 Apr 97 - 05:53 PM

This snippet might help....Tiger

CLADDAGH RECORDS NEWSLETTER AUGUST 1994 Claddagh Records, Dame House, Dame Street, Dublin 2, Ireland phone/fax [phone]. Retail and international mail-order.

(snip, snip)

The Stewarts of Blair: Alex, Belle, Sheila & Cathy Stewart. OSSCD96. Classic album of Scottish ballads first released on the Topic label in the 1960s. First time available in many years.

(snip, snip)

Subject: RE: Tune? Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From: LaMarca
Date: 08 Apr 97 - 12:52 PM

It was also recorded by Cilla Fisher on a Topic LP called (I think) "Cilla and Artie" featuring Cilla and her husband Artie Tresize. I don't know if Topic has re-released it on CD; check with your local purveyor of British import recordings.

Subject: RE: Tune? Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From:
Date: 11 Apr 97 - 01:41 PM

Just last week I got Paddy Tutty's first 2 tapes. On the very first one (PA01) the second track is "Rolling Home Drunk".

You can reach her at: Prairie Druid Music 219-11th Street East Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada S7N 0E5

Regards Frank Phillips

Subject: RE: Tune? Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From:
Date: 13 Apr 97 - 12:50 AM

Could the song be "Mickey's Warning"? It's an old Scottish song about an abused wife who gets "blue bleezing blind drunk" in order to cope with her terrible situation.

I have a version by a Tyler, Texas band called "Beyond the Pale". It's the title song from their latest CD, and they donated some of the profits to a local women's shelter! Very nice folks!

Let me know if you think this is what you're looking for.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From: GUEST,Dutch
Date: 17 Sep 06 - 12:30 PM

i originally heard this tune from an old smithsonian lp my mother had called "sounds of scotland" which she has now misplaced been looking everywhere for that

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 17 Sep 06 - 06:11 PM

Sheila Stewart sings 'Mickey's Warning' on the wonderful double CD 'Scots Women' (2001), available from Greentrax.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From: bfdk
Date: 17 Sep 06 - 06:34 PM

The Cilla and Artie recording has been reissued on CD. It's available here and here.

I've bought CDs from Musicscotland.com on various occasions and have found them very helpful indeed.

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 17 Sep 06 - 07:06 PM

I sing it too.
Linn

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From: rich-joy
Date: 18 Sep 06 - 03:17 AM

hmmm ... just tried to post and The 'Cat spat at me and logged me out!! - hasn't happened for a long time!


I learnt this song as "BBBD - Mickey's Warning" from the heartfelt Cilla & Artie recording, back in the early 80s - and then didn't come across it anywhere else until a couple of years ago, when I heard it done in a Session - as a very rollicking chorus song - which seemed to me at the time, somewhat incongruous!!

but I guess ya gotta laugh at Life ...

Cheers! R-J

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From: GUEST,Jack Campin
Date: 18 Sep 06 - 06:45 AM

Here's the tune...

X:1
T:Mickey's Warning
S:various people (originally Belle Stewart)
N:rather free metre, for godsake don't use guitar accompaniment
Z:Jack Campin 2000
M:3/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=148
K:D Minor
z2 G   |A> AA|GAG|FD2|z2||D   |D>dd|d z2 A   |d> dd|dcA|BA2|z2||F/G/|A>BA|AG E|D3 |]
"chorus"
z2 F/G/|A> AA|A2G|ADD|D2||z   |d>dd|d z2(c   |d>)dd|dcA|BcB|A2||F/G/|A>BA|G FE|FD2|]

Or it should have been, but as usual the messageboard software trashes everything on a line after a less-than sign (Scotch snap). Joe, can you fix that? - I presume you've got what I tried to send.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Sep 06 - 08:11 AM

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From: GUEST,Jack Campin
Date: 18 Sep 06 - 08:15 AM

This at least makes it look okay in my browser, god knows what will happen if you copy it to a file.

X:1
T:Mickey's Warning
S:various people (originally Belle Stewart)
N:rather free metre, for godsake don't use guitar accompaniment
Z:Jack Campin 2000
M:3/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=148
K:D Minor
z2 G   |A> AA|GAG|FD2|z2||D   |D>dd|d<cA|c3 ||
z2 A   |d> dd|dcA|BA2|z2||F/G/|A>BA|AG E|D3 |]
"chorus"
z2 F/G/|A> AA|A2G|ADD|D2||z   |d>dd|d<cA|cA2||
z2(c   |d>)dd|dcA|BcB|A2||F/G/|A>BA|G FE|FD2|]

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 18 Sep 06 - 08:01 PM

When posting in an html-based forum, there is no point in complaining if angle brackets don't come out as they would in plain text. You know perfectly well that html interprets angle brackets as enclosures for code; so in order to display angle brackets in html, it is best, and easiest, to use html. There are other workarounds, but they are unnecessarily complicated.

&lt; is the appropriate code for <, and &gt; is the code for >.

Your abc, as displayed above, can be copied and pasted from the page to, for example:

http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html.

It will not display correctly there unless the empty spaces at the beginning of each line consequent upon copying from an html display are removed, but there is a better option; Jon Freeman's converter at:

http://www.folkinfo.org/songs/abcconvert.php.

This will convert a copy-and-paste job perfectly happily, with no editing required.