Anything For John Joe (reel) on The Session

Also known as Anything For John-Jo, Anything For John-Joe, Anything For Jonjo, Anything When You Die!, The Crane Crook, Rud Ar Bith Do Sheán Joe?.

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Five settings

X: 1
T: Anything For John Joe
R: reel

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmix
F2AF G2BG|F2AF E2DE|F2AF G2BG|ABcA d3z:|
f2f2 e2de|faaf e2de|1 f2fd efed|cABc d3z:|2 f2f2 e2de|faaf e2de||

X: 2
T: Anything For John Joe
R: reel

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
F2AF G2BG|F2AF E2DE|F2AF G2BG|ABcA d4:|
f2f2 e2de|faaf e2de|f2f2 efed|cABc d3e|
f2f2 e2de|faaf e2de|fefg a2a2|ABcA d4||

X: 3
T: Anything For John Joe
R: reel

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
F2AF G2BG|F2AF EFDE|F2AF G2BG|ABcA d4|
F2AF G2BG|F2AF EFDE|F2AF G2BG|ABcA d3z|
f2~f2 e2de|faaf e2de|f2~f2 e2dB|ABcA d3e|
f2~f2 e2de|faaf e2.d2|efge a3z|ABcA d4||

X: 4
T: Anything For John Joe
R: reel

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:DE|F2AF G2BG|F2AF EFDE|F2AF G2BG|ABcA d2:|
de|f2df e2de|f2af e2de|f2df e2dB|ABcA d2de|
f2df e2de|f2af e3d|defg a3z|ABcA d2||

X: 5
T: Anything For John Joe
R: reel

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmix
DE|F2AF G2BG|F2AF EFDE|F2AF G2BG|ABcA d2 AG|
F2AF BFAF|F2AF EFDE|F2AF D3B|ABcA d2||
de|f2df e2de|f2af e2de|f2df e2dB|ABcA d2de|
f2df efde|f2af e3d|defg a3z|ABcA d2||

Fourteen comments

Nice tune Gian. This is also known as the Little Bag of Spuds (the Chieftans recorded it on one of their early vinyls way back in the late sixties).

There is a slighlty different tune by this name in Breandan Breathnach’s Ceol Rince na hEireann Vol. IV(?). The following setting is from memory, as my copy of CRE is out of my reach, in a cardboard box somewhere in Latvia. Corrections are welcome:

M:4/4
K:Dmix
F2AF G2BG|F2AF E2DE|F2AF G2BG|ABcA d3z:|
f2f2 e2de|faaf e2de|1 f2fd efed|cABc d3z:|2 f2f2 e2de|faaf e2de||

Anything For John Joe?

A fairly common session tune. The first part sounds a bit like “The Little Bag Of Spuds” in G.

Here’s a link to “The Little Bag Of Spuds” posted by Josh Kane: https://thesession.org/tunes/391

I see that this has brought up Hammy Hamilton’s “Money Musk” in the recordings list, but the tune on that album is the afore-mentioned “Little Bag Of Spuds”. I think there might be an error in the track listing - the 2 tunes are easily confused.

Hammy Hamilton already made some mistakes in the track listing. He plays “The Fair Haired Lass” as “The Dark Haired Lass,” “Miss Thornton” as “The House on the Hill.” I’m not surprised if he mixed up some more tunes.

“The Bag Of Spuds” ~ duplication, the ‘elder’:

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on November 23rd 2001 by Josh Kane.
https://thesession.org/tunes/391

“Anything For John Joe” / “The Bag of Spuds” ~ let’s not stop there

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on January 22nd 2004 by gian marco.
https://thesession.org/tunes/2425

“Anything For John Joe?” ~ a different key and B-part

Key signature: D Major
Submitted on July 1st 2004 by Dow.
https://thesession.org/tunes/3237

Anything For John Joe

I play this Reel a bit different - I got it from the
playing of Colin Hamilton and Ben Gunn, many moon’s ago -

I changed your abc around a little to something how I
play it --

X:1
T:Anything For John Joe
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
K:D
F2AF G2BG|F2AF EFDE|F2AF G2BG|ABcA d4 |
F2AF G2BG|F2AF EFDE|F2AF G2BG|ABcA d3z|
f2~f2 e2de|faaf e2de|f2~f2 e2dB|ABcA d3e|
f2~f2 e2de|faaf e2.d2|efge a3z|ABcA d4 ||

But here’s and old youtube vid of me doing it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ejIcAFMQSk