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02 Oct 12 - 09:48 PM (#3413395) Subject: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Beer There are some great names to fiddle tunes(and accordion.) and was wondering if we could list a few that you know. Here are some that come to mind. Smash the Window Irish Washer Woman Red Haired Boy It doesn't matter if they are Reels, Hornpipes, Jigs, Waltz and so on. Adrien |
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02 Oct 12 - 10:18 PM (#3413404) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Rapparee Money Musk. |
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02 Oct 12 - 10:26 PM (#3413408) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: sian, west wales Pisio ar y Gwair (Pissing on the Grass). sian |
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02 Oct 12 - 10:30 PM (#3413409) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Mike in Brunswick Last Tango in Harris Mike |
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02 Oct 12 - 11:10 PM (#3413414) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST,DrWord Money in both pockets Haste to the wedding Dennis |
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02 Oct 12 - 11:13 PM (#3413415) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Beer Haste to the wedding we played today at a seniors home. Good one. ad. |
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03 Oct 12 - 12:55 AM (#3413427) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST,DrWord I'll never play Haste to the wedding with sufficient haste, but my elderly penny whistler is slower than I on the mandolin ~ I try to play fiddle tunes on the mando ~ music_with_the_frail_elderly is such a great gig! Maple sugar Red River Reel Tiny's Rag &c.,&c. Cheers Thanx 4 the thread Beer Dennis |
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03 Oct 12 - 01:12 AM (#3413431) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Ebbie There are so many- I sometimes suspect that the same people who name the Avon products are involved in naming fiddle tunes, so colorful, whimsical, graphic, sad, they are. Cruel Willie Straight Away Burnt Potato Between the Sheets Lament for the Reverend Archie Beaton A Mighty Pretty Waltz Tombstone So many more. |
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03 Oct 12 - 03:33 AM (#3413455) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser) I Buried My Wife And Danced On Top Of Her. An Phish Fhliuch (apologies for the spelling). |
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03 Oct 12 - 03:44 AM (#3413458) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Georgiansilver The Palatka Band (Transylvania) playing "Slow Dance part one" My favourite fiddle tune... |
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03 Oct 12 - 04:18 AM (#3413470) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Dave Hanson My favourite from ' O'Neill's 1001 Gems ' is the reel, ' Kitty Got a Clinking Coming From The Races ' what does it mean ? Great name, not much of a tune. Dave H |
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03 Oct 12 - 04:22 AM (#3413475) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Bruce from Bathurst Haste To The Wedding should be followed by Lark In The Morning (and a lecherous grin). |
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03 Oct 12 - 04:27 AM (#3413477) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST,Baz Parkes Haste To The Wedding should be followed by Lark In The Morning (and a lecherous grin). Then Tripping Upstairs and the Blue Eyed Stranger... Baz |
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03 Oct 12 - 04:28 AM (#3413478) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser) The Wedding Reel (originally 'McLeod's Farewell', by Donald Shaw) The Honeymoon Reel (you can find in on thesession.org) The Acrimonious Divorce Reel The Fucked-Up Kids Reel |
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03 Oct 12 - 04:45 AM (#3413482) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: KT Shove That Pig's Foot a Little Further in the FIre Jenny Ran Away in the Mud in the Night Nail That Catfish to the Tree Tipping Back the Corn |
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03 Oct 12 - 05:02 AM (#3413492) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Morris-ey The gander in the pratie hole |
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03 Oct 12 - 05:56 AM (#3413508) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Mo the caller Are those all fast tunes? How about some slow Tom Anderson Shetland tunes. Da Slockit Light Da Auld Restin' Chair And there's a list here of too many good tunes to list. Hmm... just reread the OP. Are you looking for the names of great tunes or just tunes with great names. Easier to think up a good name than a good tune. I have a CD where one track is called by the plain daft name Sugar in the Spotty One |
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03 Oct 12 - 06:05 AM (#3413511) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser) Sir B. McKenzie's Daughter's Lament for the 77th Mounted Lancer's Retreat from the Straits of Loch Knombe, in the Year of Our Lord 1727, on the Occasion of the Announcement of Her Marriage to the Laird of Kinleakie. |
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03 Oct 12 - 06:33 AM (#3413523) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Bruce from Bathurst There's a much revered and occasionally feared expat Scot living here in Oz, a bit south of Sydney. Monty's a fiddler and he used to be a police officer in Queensland. A few years ago there was a corrupt Police Commissioner in Queensland who made a few too many (ahem) financial errors of judgement and was incarcerated in the Brisbane nick. He even had to hand back his knighthood. Monty composed a rather good 16 bar march entitled Terrence Lewis's Triumphal March To The Gates Of Boggo Road Jail. Monty doesn't live in Queensland any more. |
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03 Oct 12 - 07:50 AM (#3413553) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Dave Hanson Chris B that title was invented by Fairport Convention with the sole aim of having the tune with the longest name, it's actually ' Bonnie Kate ' Dave H |
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03 Oct 12 - 07:50 AM (#3413554) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST,pizel Well known 3 row box player telling his friend of a young player who played very fast, asked by his friend to describe fast he replied-- He plays "The Hopefull Lover" faster than a new made bride can shed her goonie on her wedding night. |
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03 Oct 12 - 08:07 AM (#3413556) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Sandy Mc Lean One of the most beautiful fiddle tunes ever composed bears one of the strangest and distinct names. The slow air "Neil Gows Lament For The Death Of His Second Wife." Buddy plays it here as the opener on this set: Buddy MacMaster |
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03 Oct 12 - 08:12 AM (#3413559) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST But the SERIOUS question is "Do you want to play all the tunes you can name , or name all the tunes you can play?" |
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03 Oct 12 - 08:30 AM (#3413573) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Harmonium Hero Some of the Irish ones are crackers (in both senses), although they're not necessarily just fiddle tunes. A few examples off the top of me head: Johnny With the Queer Thing, The Cow Ate the Blanket, Pull the Knife and Stick it Again, Old Hag You Have Killed Me, Up Stairs in a Tent, The Pope's Toe, When Sick is it Tea You Want?, The Unfortunate Cup Of Tea, Fasten The Leg In Her, etc. John Kelly |
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03 Oct 12 - 08:44 AM (#3413586) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Beer i guess what Harmonium said is what struck me by starting this thread. Names of fiddle tunes are just so different than in the "Normal Sense" of a song. Some of the names remind me of race horses. Like, where in the hell did they get that name. But I bet there is a story, short or long behind each. Ad. |
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03 Oct 12 - 09:01 AM (#3413597) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser) Did Neil Gow compose a lament for the death of his first wife? And if not, why not? I think we should be told. |
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03 Oct 12 - 09:23 AM (#3413612) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: John P Davy Come Back and Act Like You Ought Verb the Noun |
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03 Oct 12 - 10:02 AM (#3413633) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Mark Ross There's A Brown Skin Gal Down The Road Somewhere. As recorded by Eck Robertson, one of my favorites. |
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03 Oct 12 - 11:27 AM (#3413682) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Beer That is a very good tune Mark. Just fouind it and listened. ad. |
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03 Oct 12 - 11:41 AM (#3413693) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: dick greenhaus Roaring Jelly 'Taint Nothing Pigtown Fling |
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03 Oct 12 - 11:56 AM (#3413702) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Sandy Mc Lean Sorry Niel, I spelled his name wrong. "I" before "E". No tune for wife#1 that I know of. From Wikipedia: Niel Gow was married twice. His first wife was Margaret Wiseman, and they had five sons and three daughters. His sons William, Andrew (1760), Nathaniel (1763), and John (1764) all followed their father as fiddlers and composers of fiddle music; two of the daughters were Margaret (1759) and Grizel (1761). The youngest son, Daniel (1765), died in infancy; William died in 1791 at age 40, and Andrew died in 1794 at 34. Of Niel's sons, Nathaniel is by far the most well-known and another fine composer of Scottish music, with nearly two hundred tunes to his credit. As a widower, Niel married Margaret Urquhart from Perth in 1768, and they went on to share a happy marriage until she died in 1805, which prompted his composition of one of his most famous tunes: "Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife". Niel died at Inver on 1 March 1807, aged 80. |
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03 Oct 12 - 11:57 AM (#3413704) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Mark Ross Pigtown Fling is also known as Wild Horse, and Stoney Point, or sometimes Wild Horse at Stoney Point, and sometimes (not PC) as Ethiopian In The Fuel Supply. According to Alan Jabbour the correct full title of Rye Straw is Dog Shit A Rye Straw. I think Tommy Jarrell called it Joke On The Puppy. Mark Ross |
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03 Oct 12 - 12:31 PM (#3413717) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST,Lighter "The Nine Points of Roguery" |
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03 Oct 12 - 12:56 PM (#3413727) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Bee-dubya-ell "(Insert type of animal) _____ (insert preposition) _____ the (insert rural landscape feature) _____" |
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03 Oct 12 - 01:08 PM (#3413732) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST A great Milling Song from Howie MacDonald: Hyundai Sonata -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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03 Oct 12 - 01:42 PM (#3413751) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Beer I guess it would sound good with a fiddle accompanying him. ad. |
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03 Oct 12 - 01:58 PM (#3413754) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Midchuck Liberty, f/k/a The Tipsy Parson I-89 (actually The Road To Boston, but why not abbreviate it?) Old Gray Bonnet (our old fiddle group used to play it, and I'd sing Oscar Brand's lyrics (the Old Gray Bustle) but no one was offended because the fiddles were too loud for anyone to catch the words. P. |
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03 Oct 12 - 05:18 PM (#3413872) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Stringsinger The Curlew Coleman's Reel Hangman's Reel Mason's Apron Silver Spire Morrison's Jig Drunken Priest Paddy Goes To London Lost Injun Billy In the Low Ground Maid Behind the Bar Ashokan Farewell Sligo Maid Chicken Reel Doneybrook Fair Merilee Kissed the Quaker Jenny's Chickens Come West Along the Road The Contradiction Salamanca Earl's Chair Flowers of Edinburgh Cottage Grove Saint Patrick's Day Dinny O'Brien |
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03 Oct 12 - 06:23 PM (#3413910) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST,Ebor_Fiddler Go to the devil and shake yourself. Walter Bulwer's No. 2 |
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03 Oct 12 - 08:48 PM (#3414004) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Commander Crabbe Bee-Dubya-Ell Would that be "Pigeon On The Gate"? I'm with Mo for "Da Slockit Light" Can I also suggest " The Rose Hip" CC |
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03 Oct 12 - 08:49 PM (#3414005) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Commander Crabbe Almost forgot! "Abbeyfeale" CC |
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03 Oct 12 - 09:40 PM (#3414020) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Bee-dubya-ell Commander Crabbe, yes, that could be "Pigeon on the Gate". Or it could be "Geese in the Bog", "Ducks on the Pond", "Ducks on the Millpond", "Gander in the Pratie Hole", "Chuck in the Bush", "Wild Hog in the Woods", "Yearlings in the Canebrake", "Old Gray Cat on a Tennessee Farm", or "Possum up a Gum Stump". Just pick an animal, a preposition, and a rural landscape feature and you've got a ready-made name for a fiddle tune. I have a few untitled pieces of my own floating around, and plenty of personally experienced animal related incidents to draw titles from. Maybe I'll call one of them "Whitetails in the Sweet 'Tater Patch", "Coons in the Cat Dish", or "Turkey Buzzards in the Big Pine Tree". |
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03 Oct 12 - 10:49 PM (#3414039) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Beer Commander, Is this the tune? Poor video but a lovely joyful celebration. http://youtu.be/2KveuIIiz4M Also, Has anyone heard "Slattery's Mounted Fut" played on the fiddle? ad. |
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03 Oct 12 - 10:51 PM (#3414040) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Beer Great stuff Bee. If you came up with this on a whim you sure struck home. ad. |
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04 Oct 12 - 09:03 AM (#3414196) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: clueless don The Irish slip jig that is sometimes called "O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick" also has a number of other interesting names. I remember a tune on an album by Danny Carnahan and Robin Petrie. I can't remember the name of the gentleman whose name appears in the title, but the title was "<forgotten name> very nearly leaves Red Gap" Don |
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04 Oct 12 - 09:17 AM (#3414202) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Beer Found it here Don. http://www.dannycarnahan.com/music/two4road.html ad. |
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04 Oct 12 - 09:40 AM (#3414208) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: voyager Growling Old Man, Grumbling Old Woman |
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04 Oct 12 - 09:56 AM (#3414211) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Dave Hanson Cambells Farewell To Redgap. Dave H |
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04 Oct 12 - 01:59 PM (#3414344) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Commander Crabbe Beer No unfortunately that's not the tune. The session is in Murphy's Pub in Abbeyfeale town. The tune I am referring to is by the band Cara and is on their CD "Asleep Behind The Settee" http://www.carasmusic.com/htdocs/music/asleep_scores.html Sorry I can't put up a blicky my machine keeps stopping it doing so when I click make a link. Chris |
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04 Oct 12 - 02:03 PM (#3414348) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: open mike Ashogan's Farewell Swingin' on a Gate Beaumont Rag Around the Horn Road to California Goin' to California Caledonian Laddie hornpipe Mari's Wedding Flowers of Edinburg Chorus Jig Old Grey Cat Bottom of the punchbowl and, oh, so many more... |
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04 Oct 12 - 02:15 PM (#3414364) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: open mike look on http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind John Chamber's tune finder for thousands of others.. also Cole's 1000 fiddle tunes book and others pointed out here by Vivian Williams http://www.voyagerrecords.com/arbook.htm of fiddlers fake book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fiddler%27s_Fakebook http://edbaggott.com/ has several nice tunes on his web page |
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04 Oct 12 - 02:25 PM (#3414371) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST,Eliza Lots of Morris tunes have funny names. I don't know much about it, perhaps they're the names of the actual dances that go with them. But I'm thinking of Bonny Green Garters, Y-Fronts, Tabletop Hornpipe, Speed The Plough, Postman's Knock, Kingston Black, Fanny Frail, Shepherds Hey etc. (I have an obsession with Morris dancing.) |
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04 Oct 12 - 02:43 PM (#3414386) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: dick greenhaus I'd forgotten one with the pithy title: "Paresis" |
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05 Oct 12 - 09:12 AM (#3414802) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: GUEST,PatrickH I heard a lovely setting of the Wind That Shakes the Barely from Australia, called "The Bullshit Over the Calf-Pen." |
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12 Oct 12 - 02:02 PM (#3418718) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Les from Hull I've always enjoyed the intentionally mis-named tunes as in: Varnish my foreskin for Banish misfortune Barnsley pilgrim for Blarney pilgrim The slimy road to Otago for the tarry road to Sligo Any more? |
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12 Oct 12 - 03:11 PM (#3418754) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Bill D My personal favorite that is NOT a slow waltz is Ragtime Annie There are many, many versions of it on YouTube..but the fastest I ever heard is by this 7 yr old.. I don't 'approve', but it is amazing. The best version was by Joe Birchfield of The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers |
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12 Oct 12 - 07:08 PM (#3418854) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: Ebbie "I have a few untitled pieces of my own floating around, and plenty of personally experienced animal related incidents to draw titles from. Maybe I'll call one of them "Whitetails in the Sweet 'Tater Patch", "Coons in the Cat Dish", or "Turkey Buzzards in the Big Pine Tree". " Bee-dubya-ell Around here it would be more common to name one "Black Bear in the Dog Food." Happens a lot. |
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12 Oct 12 - 09:08 PM (#3418906) Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes From: BanjoRay Some Old Time tunes from the USA: Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes Who Shat In Grandpa's Hat Flatfoot In The Ashes Shaving A Dead Man Briar Picker Brown Old Aunt Jenny With Her Nightcap On Shaking Down The Acorns Wild Hog In The Woods Squirrel Hunters .....and thousands more. Ray |