Tickle Her Leg With The Barley Straw jig

Great banjo tune, taken from Sharon Shannon’s Spellbound album, goes well with Bundle and Go.

i am going to Boston soon .Are there any good session pubs in Boston?
Also do they like people joining in?

Is a bear Polish? Does the Pope **** in the woods? Do a search in the Sessions section, Jim, you’ll find plenty. As for joining in, read the comments carefully, it’ll depend on how good *you* are and which session you choose to try to join.

Zina

And what does that have to do with Tickle Her Leg, exactly? ;)

You might have noticed that I posted a request for ‘Jeruselem’ okay how stupid do i feel!? Not only did I spell it wrong, I was looking for Jerusalem Ridge in a hurry and never meant to post any request at all…now I can’t get rid of it. So I’m not looking for a hymn but I am going to give up traditional music out of shame….

Skippy, don’t take it to heart! The spelling mistakes (usually typos) on this site would keep a dictionary maker happy (or miserable) for years. Anyway, Jerusalem Ridge has already been submitted, and perhaps some kind person might write a tune called “Jeruselem” - what do you want, reel, jig, hornpipe, etc🙂 ?
Trevor

That’s a really good transcription of the tune as Sharon Shannon plays it, by the way. Simple things done well!

I was just trying it out on the B/C accordion and discovered a couple of little variations you can use. There are a bunch of places where it goes EDE or F#EF#. Raising the middle note a half step to ED#E or F#FF# once in a while is nice. I imagine that on a fiddle, using a neutral tone somewhere between D and D# or between E and F would work, too. And the only G in the whole tune also seems to work as a G#.

This is one of my favourite jigs - the first one I learnt well enough to play through coherently…

I learned it from Brendan Power and his album “New Irish Harmonica” - I was most surprised (forgive my ignorance, please) to come across it on one of SS’s albums. I like the way both of them play it and I’m going to incorporate some of the fun variations she uses.

It’s usually played in Edor, and called "Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself: https://thesession.org/tunes/1937

There’s a slide version here too https://thesession.org/tunes/5088

The version of the tune played on the *Tunes* album, to my ear, sounds more like this (on an F whistle) --

T: Tickle Her Leg
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Bmin
F2B BAF | A2A AFE | F2B BAF | Ade fdB |
F2B BAF | A3 ABc | def e2c |1 B3 AFE :|2 B3 Bde ||
f2b baf | a3 afe | f2b baf | a3 afe |
f2b baf | e3 eBc | def e2c |1 B3 Bde:|2 B3 AFE ||

Or, if you’re more string or button-inclined:

K: Dmin
A2d dcA | c2c cAG | A2d dcA | cfg afd |
A2d dcA | c3 cde | fga g2e |1 d3 cAG :|2 d3 dfg ||
a2d‘ d’c‘a | c’3 c‘ag | a2d’ d‘c’a | c‘3 c’ag |
a2d‘ d’c’a | g3 gde | fga g2e |1 d3 dfg:|2 d3 cAG ||

🙂

Here’s how I hear it on that recording….

X:1
T: Tickle Her Leg
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Bmin
F2B BAF | A2A AFE | F2B BAF | Ade fdB |
F2B BAF | A3 ABc | def e2c |1 B3 B2A :|2 B3 Bde ||
f2b baf | a3 afe | f2b baf | a3 aba |
f2b baf | e3 ABc | def e2c |1 B3 Bde:|2 B3 ~B2A ||

Isn’t the version of the tune played on the Tunes album the same as this one? https://thesession.org/tunes/4310