Lately my dear husband (the DH) and I have been watching the Red Green Show on YouTube after supper. The show is Canadian, and it started in the 1990's, apparently because somebody figured that public tv needed masculinity. And masculinity it's got - duct tape, workshop, fart jokes, car parts, etc. Red (the main character) ends many episodes with "And remember, keep your stick on the ice." We figure this is Canadian for "Don't give up on life."

The show has a jaunty theme song played on a squeezebox of some kind, and I thought it would be fun to write it down and play it. First I searched to see if somebody else had done the notation, and I found this:

theme song first version

As the saying goes, that not folk music, that's algebra. There are parts of that where I can't even figure out what the notes are, let alone decipher the timing. So I was ready to give up. But then I told myself to keep my stick on the ice. I now knew that the key was C and the timing was 4/4. (That is a real help.) After making the notes twice as big, and by using triplets and ornaments where the First Version uses ties and 32nd notes, I finally got the melody down. (I don't notate ornaments. I pencil them in where they are comfortable for me after everything else is done.)

The melody is still copyright, so I'm trying to keep my head down here. But if trusted Mudcatters want the sheet music, I will send a JPG. Just PM me. You can ask for it in C or D.