Cynthia wrote:
> I am writing out my arrangement of this lovely WALTZ ( not the jig by
> the same name)...
I remember reading that the Irish jig was actually inspired by the
slower air. I can't find the reference (I seem to have mislaid a floppy
with hundreds of tunes on it).
> I learned it from my Grandfather long time back, and
> I seem to remember he called it the Mist Covered Mountains of Home...
That's what Bobby Macleod called it too. The Gaelic "Chi Mi na
Mor-Bheanna" apparently means "I will see the Great Mountains", not
that I would know. I did Gaelic evening classes for a year and learned
a valuable lesson: that I didn't want to learn Gaelic any longer.
> ...My questions: does anyone know where this tune came from?
Jack Campin says it's a version of the well known English tune,
"Johnny's Too Long at the Fair" ("Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?").
Bit of a scunner that one.
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Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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