’S Iomadh Rud A Chunnaic Mi reel

This is the basic 2 part version ,unlike the one on “portland”which has another couple of parts.

This tune is fairly well known in Scotland as a Gaelic puirt a buel, and I have played a version of it for years called “Cenneag Mhor”
(see http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tab/tab6/cenn.html)
- my version came from the playing of Addie Harper.

Reminds me of this https://thesession.org/tunes/3224

Here’s Kevin Burke playing it - the second tune in the set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bLcJCHSLb4

play video

nice version by malinky on the unseen hours

“Any’s The Thing I Saw”

Score articulated to fit the rhythm of the song.

already here

https://thesession.org/tunes/5478

Different key and a slightly different setting to the version already here.

Needs the last bar altering to add up. Great tune mind.

Ah, so it is a duplicate. I didn’t find the first one. I think I was using the Skye dialect. This setting is from Fin Moore’s pipe settings.

Score fixed. If the powers that be rather the pipe setting go in the comments section of the first post then that would be fair.

I think a link in both to each other would suffice. Only my opinion.

Actually, D is the most likely key you’d hear this, played as a tune rather than sung as a puirt a beul.

S’iomadh rud a chunnaic mi
S’iomadh rud a rinn mi
S’iomadh rud a chunnaic mi
A-muigh air feadh na h-oidhche

Chunnaic mi na piseagan
Na piseagan, na piseagan
Chunnaic mi na piseagan
Air spiris Mac an t-Saighdeir

S’iomadh rud a chunnaic mi
S’iomadh rud a rinn mi…

=>
Many a thing I saw, many a thing I did
Many a thing I saw out during the night

I saw the kittens, the kittens, the kittens
I saw the kittens on the soldier’s son’s roost

Many a thing I saw, many a thing I did …

Here’s the D version. My search didn’t find this version because I was using a different spelling. Had I found this, I would have just posted here in the comments. And on reflection, my setting doesn’t fit the lyrics of the puirt-a-beul all that exactly either. Here it is anyways.

X: 1
T: ‘S Iomaidh Rud A’Chunna Mi
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
e|f2fe dBAB|dded B2A2|f2fe dBAB|dBAB d2d:|
A|ddef afef|afef edBA|ddef afef|edBA d2dA|
ddef afef|ffef afef|ddef afef|edBA d2d|]

The key of D is also what fits on Scottish pipes. On a D smallpipe it would transpose to G which is the key of the original post.

Posted by Kuddel 5 years ago: “Any’s The Thing I Saw” (malinky on the unseen hours)…

It’s actually “Many’s the Thing I Saw” on the Malinky album - see birlibirdie’s post above.

Check out the tune “Go Immediately” in the David Glen Collection via the Ceol Sean website. Pretty much the same tune. In the A part, “Go Immediately” starts on the G nat, and in “Many Things” the tune starts on F#.
According to Barry Shears, “Go Immediately” was popular among Cape Breton pipers.

Matt

Kevin Burke plays it in A major I seem to remember, also I wouldn’t say his version has more than two parts, for some reason he plays Lucy Farr’s fling in reel time and throws that in with this tune for good measure - but not in any consistent way.

To my ear, this is closer to Kevin Burkes rendition.

Thanks Andrew for your transcription which matches the video. I am pleased to have discovered this interesting tune / song