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Gie Us A Drink Of Water slip jig

There are 2 recordings of this tune.

Gie Us A Drink Of Water has been added to 2 tune sets.

Gie Us A Drink Of Water has been added to 18 tunebooks.

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One setting

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X: 1
T: Gie Us A Drink Of Water
R: slip jig
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
g|fdd edB Add|fdd dcd e2g|fdd edB Add|gfe fdB A2:|
g|faa f>ef afe|d2f afd e2g|faa f>ef afe|gfe fdB A2
g|faa f>ef afe|d2f afd e2g|fdd edB Add|gfe fdB A2||

Five comments

Gie Us A Drink Of Water

This is the opening tune of Deaf Shepherd’s album ‘Ae Spark O Nature’s Fire’ (1996). It’s a different tune to the one linked to the album in the recording section, and I couldn’t find it elsewhere on thesession.org.

Gie Us A Drink Of Water

The link in the recording section now goes to this tune - yay!

I would say it is a variant of The Swaggering Jig - the tune The Bothy Band called “Give us a Drink of Water.
https://thesession.org/tunes/661
But IMO best left here, as it would get obscured by the new system if submitted on that page.

Gie Us A Drink Of Water

Dash it all!

One of the ‘Bothy Band compressed-for-GHB’ genre of tunes?