Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith

Subject: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: Mr Happy
Date: 13 Oct 13 - 09:31 AM

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A decent representation here:Merry Blacksmith

A good tune for practicing guitar accompaniment

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 14 Oct 13 - 08:18 AM

Thanks for the tune, Mr. Happy. I'm taking a class at the Irish Center, and the class had played 'The Merry Blacksmith' shortly before I joined it. So I'm glad of the opportunity to print the song and learn it.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Oct 13 - 09:22 AM

This fella does a good job, and you don't have to put up with that horrid guitar accompaniment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beYv9ac-Guo

He does have quite an interesting take on the B part, but that's what life's all about!

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: terrier
Date: 14 Oct 13 - 04:51 PM

He's playing it hornpipe style and throwing a few bars of "Staten Island" in to the B music. Nice playing, though.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Oct 13 - 05:59 PM

Yeah, that's it! Nice though, as you say, and there are no rules!

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: GUEST,Mike Yates
Date: 15 Oct 13 - 03:25 AM

There is a different "Merry Blacksmith" tune that I especially like. You can hear a 1928 recording by Theron Hale & Daughters reissued on Document CD "Nashville 1928" (DOCD-8037).

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: terrier
Date: 15 Oct 13 - 09:25 AM

There are many tunes concerning Blacksmiths with even more various names. Look
HERE   . Is your tune one of these, Mike?

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: GUEST,Mike Yates
Date: 15 Oct 13 - 10:35 AM

Theron Hale's tune features some piccicato, which sounds like the blacksmith's hammer.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: GUEST,Mike Yates
Date: 15 Oct 13 - 10:41 AM

Just double-checked and the tune that I like is not the "Merry Blacksmith", but rather the "Jolly Blacksmith". Should have gone to Specsavers, as they say!

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Oct 13 - 11:07 AM

A "Jolly Blacksmith" song here: "Jolly Blacksmith".
& jolly good too!

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: terrier
Date: 15 Oct 13 - 12:53 PM

Good one, MrH. Sounds just like the Watersons recorded on an old dictation machine!

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: GUEST,Mike Yates
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 04:30 AM

Also, thanks from me as well. It reminds me more of the Copper Family. But who were the "Hayden Quartet"? They are certainly new to me.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: terrier
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 09:18 AM

Info on Wikipedia

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Merry Blacksmith
From: Mr Happy
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 10:29 AM

Interestingly, the archivist in that article refers to their songs as 'Pop Music' - in 1910!