Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on July 30th 2003 by Josh Kane.
This tune has been added to 70 tunebooks.
Also known as The Moon And Seven Stars, Seven Stars, The Seven Stars.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Seven Stars, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|: d2A A2A | GAB A2A | Bcd efg | fed cBA |
d2A A2F | GAB A2A | Bcd efg | Adc d2d :|
|: e2A A2f | efg ~f2f | efg fed | cde A2A |
BGB AFA | BGB AFA | Bcd efg | Adc d2d :|
Josh, it's good to see you posting again! Nice tune, too. But you're back to your old habits...so tell us something about the Seven Stars....
# Posted on July 30th 2003 by Will CPT
this is a tune we used to play quite a lot at the english session down at the cricketers pub in greenwich - one of a set of three.the other two were: 'would you marry a young virgin' and something else involving squirrels
# Posted on July 30th 2003 by biggus dave
It's a pleasure to be back!
Mmm...it's good to be home again. I've been scouting colleges and going through that whole edumuhcation thing. Boy! What a trip! But anyway, about the tune.
I know it's a pretty popular fife & drum tune, and I heard it once in Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick last summer, and forgot all about it until recently. Other than that, I know nothing more about it.
# Posted on July 31st 2003 by Josh Kane
This tune is found in Joshua Jacksons 1798 manuscript under the name of The Seven Stars, and can be found in an excellent book of tunes from the said manuscript, available from Yorkshire Dales Workshops.
# Posted on August 1st 2003 by showaddydadito
Seven Stars
This tune is well known throughout England and Northumbria. It is in the Hardy manuscripts and I think that it is one of the best tunes in the whole world. The Angels of the North use it for a very old dance called Duck for the Oyster and couple it with Lamb Skinnet (Northumbrian) and Oyster Girl (English - very widespread).
When the Angels played in Tallinn this summer we were surprised to hear it played almost as a Polka by Sofia Joons who got it from a Danish Souce. Of course, there has always been a liberal trade in many things (including genes, language and tunes) across the North sea and up into the Baltic, so we are not surprised to find the connection.
Noel Jackson
Angels of the North
# Posted on August 12th 2003 by noelbats
STAR ABOVE THE GARTER gets lyrics
I'VE GIVEN THIS TUNE SOME LYRICS, SORT OF AN ODE TO BIG DIPPER - DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER EXISTING LYRICS
# Posted on March 30th 2006 by mctree
Whoops wrong title MOON & SEVEN STARS
HI AGAIN WHEN I SAID I WROTE LYRICS (ODE TO BIG DIPPER), I MEANT FOR THE JIG, "THE MOON & SEVEN STARS," NOT the star above the garter
# Posted on March 30th 2006 by mctree
Set
The B part of "Seven Stars" runs very well into the A of the Irish "O'Keefe's Slide" - good spot to crank up the tempo, too!
# Posted on August 26th 2008 by Ellie B