>>> Anyway, I don't think it's any sillier than "Squirrel in the Tree" >>> jig. >> Oh no, I was waiting for that Squirrel in the tree jig to come up. >> Sandy MacIntyre would play that jig at the Gaelic college and laugh. >> To my horror, other people got excited and wanted to know what that >> tune was.. > > ABC please????... > > Dunno the connotations that might have, I assume there's something I'm > missing. I had a similar experience when I asked on rec.music.folk for > an ABC or MIDI of the "Gilligan's Island" theme tune; this turns up a > lot in Usenet discussions, usually in the context of "you can sing X to > the theme from Gilligan's Island", but I've never seen the programme and > have no idea what the tune is.
I intentionally don't know the tune, because I like to think I don't spend alot of time learning silly little tunes :-) Although I think Sandy actually wrote it out in his white book. I'll punch out the abc's for it later when I get back home this afternoon and you can see what I mean. There's really no connotations to it. It's just a silly little jig as far as I know, but for some reason it always seems to make into the tune sets for square sets, usually near the beginning, when the fiddler is just getting warmed up. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
