Tune Req: scottish slip jig: as black as a coal

Subject: Tune Req: scottish slip jig: as black as a coal
From: GUEST,John E
Date: 11 Jul 14 - 07:44 PM

Any one know it, and know where I can hear a recording? I am trying to learn it with music I have, but don't think I'm getting the feel for it.
Thanks.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: scottish slip jig: as black as a coal
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Jul 14 - 08:13 PM

It's an elaboration of a more familiar 9/8 jig the name of which I forget. Scottish 9/8 jigs tend to all blur together in my head - Hey Ca Thro? Rattlin Roarin Willie? something in that family but I think there's a closer one. Gore's tune index shows it as unique, which has to be wrong.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: scottish slip jig: as black as a coal
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Jul 14 - 08:48 PM

The first strain is more or less the same as "Colonel" (or "The Collonel") in David Young's 1740 collection:

http://www.campin.me.uk/Music/YoungBodleian.abc