Toss The Fiddles polka

.. about this tune, when she played it at the Philadelphia Ceili Group

This is actually the first time I’ve seen this tune written out, so it may very well be a polka, but in Philadelphia, it tends to be played as a slow reel of sorts. In a set that is almost guaranteed to be played during the Sunday session at the Plough and the Stars, it’s played after Her Long Black Hair (played in A Minor, not the B Minor version as listed on this site). Again, this whole set is usually played as slow reels.

now even the tripled ploblem is fixed: the first three notes are tripleds of sixteenth, the second three notes are streight 1/8s. So the sheet does not show it right, but the abc is ok and does it fine on your abc interpreter at home…

yes connaughtman, I can

This lastest version is very nearly the way Liz Knowles plays it. Listen to it via her website. Did she write this tune? It’s a little gem.

Yes, janglecrow, Liz Knowles wrote the tune. I think it gets more play in the Philadelphia area because Liz Carroll played it at the Philadelphia Ceili Group’s trad festival in 2001, and it wound up on their CD, also called “Toss the Fiddles”.

This is a simpler setting, perhaps the heart of the tune. It omits most of the embellishing notes in setting 2, and I think the rhythm in the B part is more accurate than setting 1. Comments welcome.

Nice one, I wonder where the tune Jason G wrote about 13 years ago
‘Her long Black Hair’ are hiding. The only ‘hairy’ stuff I can find is this hornpipe:
https://thesession.org/tunes/1263
and it’s in some major keys and not minor’s.

Her Long Dark Hair Flowing Down Her Back AKA Her Golden Hair Hanging Down Her Back
https://thesession.org/tunes/1263
This is the tune. The x:3 version supposedly in C major is actually in A minor (both keys share the same key signature).

The link has both tunes in a set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCTym4eg5h8

play video