Thanks Derek, I'd totally overlooked the similarity, but now that you
mention it it's fairly obvious.
Regards,
Ted
Derek Hoy wrote:
>
> Ted asked:
> > Can anyone shed any light on the following tune, which appears in
> > Cole's/Ryan's as "Kilwinning's Steeple" (where it's marked as "Scotch") and
> > in O'Neills as "The Clock in the Steeple". It certainly looks like a
> > Scottish tune, but I haven't been able to trace it yet in any of the older
> > Scottish collections. Could this be another of the tunes O'Neill "borrowed"
> > from Cole's?
>
> Sorry this is such a late response- I've just got round to listening to the
> ABC. The tune's pretty much the same that used for the old Scots song
> 'There's nae luck aboot the hoose', which is set more as a strathspey.
>
> Derek
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