>> Did you try "Pop Goes the Weasel"? > THAT'S the one!! .. I knew that I had heard one of your classes back > in Guelph playing a tune that would work, but couldn't for the life of > me remember what it was .. the kids will love it .. all I have to do is > convince the parents that it 'might' be a tune played in the Scottish/CB > (outer?) circles.
It occurs in a manuscript of Lady John Scott's along with a bunch of Scottish traditional material (some of which occurs nowhere else) - so it seems to have been absorbed into Scottish tradition within only a few years of its composition. It's so similar to "Off She Goes" and "Hit Her on the Bum" that it could well claim a Scottish or Northern English ancestry going back 150 years before that, to the end of the 17th century. How about "The Big Ship Sails on the Eely-Ally-O"? How easy is that on the fiddle? [Kate, did you get my email?] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
