F**k The Tories reel

A wee tune by John Spiers he wrote after deciding it shouldn’t just be songwriters who can make political music.

Originally imagined as a hornpipe but is far more like a French-Canadian "crooked reel" to the composer’s delight!

Enjoy the tune, apologies for the bad language!

I might have just found my tune for xmas ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBJ6NYORSZ8&has_verified=1

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Thanks for the video… I was actually just listening to some Spiers and Boden earlier, and this one is definitely good. First time I’ve seen any swearing on here!

This is much too nice a tune to be associated with the Tories.

I agree… "No ifs, no buts".

This is great, thanks!

New ringtone!

What’s the difference between a banjo and a trampoline?
You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline

cracking tune - hope you don’t mind, I adjusted the down beat to make more sense to what I heard you play. Good stuff!

Left stranded! I see the little request made in jest for banjo jokes that was in the comments section above has been removed and now my post appears rather oddly out of context. No offence meant folks just a bit of fun. I first heard that old one years ago about my pipes.

How is it that Folk The Tories is swearing… am I missing something?

Second version, there seems to be a problem with measures 9 and 10. Measure 9, which is split between the end of the A section and the pickup to the B, is short an eighth note, and measure 10 has one quarter note beat too many.

My transcription from May 2017.

Agree, it is far too nice a tune to go with the title!! Should we have a competition to see who can come up with the direst tune for that title?

Well I see from my original transcription I called it "Fank The Tories (For All Wot They Have Did)".

As in "Fings ain’t wot they used to be"?

Indeed. Fink you got the right idea.

Here’s another one https://thesession.org/tunes/11109

Yes, all very radical I’m sure. Just be careful what you wish for - the alternative could be so much worse…

Not very radical here, Stephen. I’m just not very comfortable with the title - it’s a bit too blatant for my liking. (At least "Balls to Hall" could have several meanings.) But thanks for letting us know where your political allegiance lies.

Heee! Heeee! It was played on BBC news last Tuesday, from the session in The Royal Oak, Fishguard. They were interviewing people, including Folk Musicians, in marginal constituencies…..

VOTE LABOUR next week.

No chance. SNP for Scotland. No to Labour and their trident and Brexit.

I can see a few posts being deleted in the near future, I’m afraid.
🙂

https://youtu.be/AqF_Bbk1wfs

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Top tune :D Thank you John Spiers!