Tune Req: Does Anyone Recognize This Tune?

03 May 01 - 12:09 AM (#454443)
Subject: Does Anyone Recognize This Tune?
From: NightWing

In the thread "Bawdy songs for women to sing", lady penelope posted a very funny bawdy lyric. She didn't post a tune for it, though.

I came up with a tune that fits the rhythm of the words and I'm wondering if this is something I've heard somewhere or if I actually invented an original tune. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

T:Hurrah for Toyboys!
M:6/8
L:1/8
C:Jeff Hutchinson (?)
K:C
G|c2 c c2 A|G2 G G2 G|c2 c d2 B|c3 z2 e|g3-g z f|e2 c2 z c|d2 d c2 B|c3 z2 G|c2 c c2 A|G2 G G2 G|c2 c d2 B|c3 z2 e|g3-g z2 f|e2 c2 z c|d2 d c2 B|c3 z2 e|g2 g a2 g|e2 d c2 e|g2 g f2 e|d3 z2 e|g3-g z2 f|e2 c2 z c|d2 d c2 B|c3 z2||

If it's "original", I suspect it's bits and pieces of stuff I've always known. Anybody recognize even bits and pieces?

BB,
NightWing

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03 May 01 - 08:42 AM (#454650)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Does Anyone Recognize This Tune?
From: MMario

it sound "familiar" but I can't put a finger on what it sounds like.

I'd just go with it.

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03 May 01 - 07:25 PM (#455223)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Does Anyone Recognize This Tune?
From: Snuffy

Nightwing

I couldn't place your tune, but there seemed to be elements of The Lincolnshire Poacher and possibly The Bonny Blue Flag.

Here's the ABc of the tune for Doodle Let Me Go given by Hugill. Note that it's modal - i.e. it's in D but all C's are natural.

As for structure, Hugill and DT give it as 4 lines - Verse, Refrain, Chorus, Refrain; Lady P gives it as 6 lines - Verse, Refrain, Verse, Refrain, Chorus, Refrain; and I've heard it as 8 lines - Verse, Refrain, Verse, Refrain, Chorus, Refrain, Chorus repeat, Refrain. As the tune is effectively two lines repeated ad lib, you can do it any way you want with the same tune.

X: 149
T:Doodle Let Me Go
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:Hugill, Shanties of the Seven Seas
K:D Mix % 1 Sharp
D|
D2E F2G|A2B c2c|B2A G2F|G3-G2B|
A3- A2F|D2F A3 |G2F E2E|D3-D3 |
D2E F2G|A2B c3 |B2A G2F|G3-G2B|
A3- A2F|D2F A3 |G2F E2E|D3-D3 ||


Wassail! V

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03 May 01 - 07:35 PM (#455231)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Does Anyone Recognize This Tune?
From: Sorcha

Snuffy, is it Bonny Blue Flag or Rally Round the Flag? I think the latter, but it is only echoes of it. Like Mario, it's familiar but I can't place the entire thing.

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03 May 01 - 08:05 PM (#455254)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Does Anyone Recognize This Tune?
From: Snuffy

Definitely only echoes, Sorch, but too indistinct to be sure.

Wassil! V

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03 May 01 - 08:34 PM (#455263)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Does Anyone Recognize This Tune?
From: Joe Offer

I pasted the tune into JC's tune Finder and this (click) is what I got. Click on the grey "find again" buttons to narrow the search. Not an exact match, but there are interesting similarities.
-Joe Offer-

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03 May 01 - 10:01 PM (#455317)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Does Anyone Recognize This Tune?
From: Jeri

Bits sound like the Ball of Kerrimuir...also Linconshire Poacher (midi) or Dundee Weaver (which isn't in the DT.

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