Key signature: Emajor
Submitted on February 6th 2003 by Will CPT.
This tune has been added to 53 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Touching Cloth
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emaj
|:B~E3 cBGc|Bceg fgec|B~E3 cBGc|efge f2 ec|
|B~E3 cBGc|Bceg faga|bgeg fgec|Bege fgec:||
|:Be (3eee Bege|Bege fgec|Be (3eee Bege|(3fga ge fgec|
|Be (3eee Bege|Bege faga|bgeg fgec|Bege fgec:||
Touching Cloth
According to the liner notes on Dervish's End of the Day cd, this snappy reel was written by fiddler James Kelly. So I've posted it here as played by Kelly with Zan McLeod on a track I got from Zina (and I'm hoping she'll post the discographic info here).
Dervish does this tune in the more flute and whistle friendly key of D maj, with a slightly different approach as well:
T: Touching Cloth
C: James Kelly
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
D: Dervish - At the End of the Day
K: D
|:ADFA (3BBB dB|ABdf (3efe dB|ADFA Bdef|gefd edBd|
|ADFA BAFB|ABdf ed (3efg|afdf (3efe dB|Adfd efdB:||
|:Adfd edfd|Adfd edBd|Adfd edef|(3gag fg edBd|
|Adfd edfd|Adfd ed (3efg|afdf efdB|Adfd efdB:||
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by Will CPT
Ah, Zina enlightened me that the James Kelly cd is The Ring Sessions. There you have it.
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by Will CPT
I'll post it when I get back from class this evening!
zls
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by Zina Lee
Lovely tune!
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by Dow
The Title
Amusing title! Are you aware of what it actually refers to?
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by LongNote
LongNote, I've wondered about that. Evertyhing springs to mind from priests' garments to the old bundle sack, where a young man would be stitched into a bag when sleeping at his fiance's house. What gives?
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by Will CPT
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by Dow
Vulgar but true
"It's touching cloth" is a phrase you use when you really need to "go". I heard it first played by Ciaran Tourish who paired it with a reel he said was called "Sitting on the Throne". Now, aren't you glad you asked?
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by LongNote
Hahahahahaha!!!!!! That turtle rears its ugly head again
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by Dow
Both this one and "Sitting on the Throne" were written by James Kelly. I was surprised that James used such vulgar titles as he is such a getntleman!
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by milesnagopaleen
In my family, they say "I'm crowning," as in giving birth.
Yes, on The Ring Sessions, James Kelly follows Touching Cloth with Sitting on the Throne. This explains it all. Reminds me of a tune I wrote while working for the Forest Service called the Giardia Jig, in honor of the little dance you do when you get amoebic dysentery. The jig is, of course, in Bm....
Thanks LongNote--my second belly laugh of the day!
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by Will CPT
I wonder if that explains why he called the album the RIng Sessions?
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by milesnagopaleen
This place gets more like a real world session every day....
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by Will CPT
gorgeous tune
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by bb
A Substitute for the Bucks of Oranmore
I've been lazy and avoiding learning the Bucks of Oranmore, but I can try this one first. Thanks Will for D major version.
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by slainte
So Will, I don't suppose I could talk you into doing a post of Sitting on the Throne, too, so it all matches?
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by Zina Lee
Yiz are all...
"durty bastes", as my ma would say!
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by Conán McDonnell
And that latest candidate for deification, Will Harmon, has indeed posted Sitting on the Throne for your general edification: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1416
# Posted on February 7th 2003 by Zina Lee
"sitting on a pinnacle" is another term for this phenomenon and would be a great tune title
# Posted on June 10th 2007 by Bren