For enthusiasts of early banjo
Buckra's Return
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Comment by James Pentecost on April 2, 2013 at 1:12am
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Nice Tim. Your gourd banjo has a beautiful tone.
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Comment by Valerie Diaz Leroy on April 2, 2013 at 4:15am
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This is lovely. Where is this tune from? Is it yours?
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Comment by Tim Twiss on April 2, 2013 at 6:07am
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Thanks. This is that same tune from Kerr's. I switched instruments to a gourd with a higher tuning, slowed it down, kept the rhythms square, and made up a new name. I'm just sort of running free with this experiment. even seeing how the title can effect perception.
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Comment by Ian Bell on April 2, 2013 at 6:17am
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That gourd's got such a big open sound. If you want to sing that one, it goes:
"Ho, ho, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Rare Bog, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Well in the bog there was a hole,
A rare hole and a rattlin' hole,
And the hole in the bog,
And the bog down in the valley-o...etc."
What was it called in Kerr's?
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It is called John McAlpine. Seriously...this has been adapted for lyrics?
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I sang that in grade school! Now I've got to play the song.
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It's a real standard in the "Arrrgh Me Boys" Irish pub band repertoire. You can get a taste of it on an amazing number of Youtube videos. The John McAlpine B music isn't part of the song - at least the way I've heard it.
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I'm just not spotting any. Hook up a link if you get a chance.
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When it's a a song it's called "The Rattling Bog" Here's one:
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxgmAwoqr4E
The melody is also a variant of "Oft In The Stilly Night" (except in common time not 3/4) which we were just discussing a couple of weeks ago but I can't find the thread anywhere. I remember mentioning Thomas Moore the Irish poet. I don't know how that came up.
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Thanks. Love these connections.
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