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You Can Call Me Big Al jig

By Ian Stephenson

Also known as Big Al, Big Al’s Birthday.

There are 2 recordings of this tune.

You Can Call Me Big Al has been added to 6 tune sets.

You Can Call Me Big Al has been added to 45 tunebooks.

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One setting

1
X: 1
T: You Can Call Me Big Al
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
D|:EGB A2G|ABA GB/c/d|~e3 ede|gdB A2G|
e2e ede|g3 gab|agf g2f|edB G2D|
EGF G2D|EGB AB/c/d|~e3 edB|e3 e2f|
gab agf|g2f edB|AGE G3-|G3- G2D:|
e3 ede|g3 gab|a2a aga|bag edB|
~e3 ede|g3 gab|agf g2f|edB AB/c/d|
~e3 ede|g3 gab|a2a aga|bag edB|
~e3 ~A3|~e3 fga|bzb- bag|a3- aga|
bag edB|e6-|e3- e2d|eaf g2d|
edB AGE|G6-|G3- G2D||

Six comments

KAN tune

Another tune from great band, KAN. I’m not sure who wrote it, I assume Brian Finnegan.

I’ve had the ABC’s sitting on my computer for a bit, and figured I’d post them finally. Played in a set with Aidan O’Rourke’s tune “Noble”

Sound clip on their soundcloud page:
http://soundcloud.com/kan-3

play

Also, on 422’s album “Go Forth.” Still don’t know who wrote it, perhaps Ian or one of the other members of 422?

Wow!

Fabulous tune, in best neo trad sort of way.

Reminds me of tunes by

the great Canadian tune composer, Brian Pickell.

Big Al’s birthday

Ian Stephenson wrote it for Al’s birthday.

Re: You Can Call Me Big Al

It’s a nice tune, but before I listened to it I had thought it might have had something to do with the Paul Simon song “You Can Call Me Al”