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Thread #34114   Message #458615
Posted By: Aidan Crossey
09-May-01 - 09:13 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Herb Reid's/She Said She Couldn't D
Subject: Herb Reid's/She Said She Couldn't Dance
On Paddy Keenan's album "The Na Keen Affair", he plays a set of three tunes from Newfoundland - "Herb Reid's/She Said She Couldn't Dance/Shootin' The Bull". These are listed as singles. Not being au fait with Newfoundland dance music, I thought initially that the tunes might be single jigs. Turns out they're more like polkas. (Could they be single hornpipes which someone once described to me when we were both very drunk in a time which suggested some quasi-mythical format ...?)

Are any mudcatters familiar with these tunes and aware of any sources on the web where they might be available (in any format ... preferably abc, but beggars can't be choosers!) My search of all the usual suspects turned up nothing ... if anyone else could help I'd be eternally grateful.