Eleven comments
Come Back With My Bloody Car
Source: LUNASA - "The Kinnitty Sessions"
Transcription: F SAUR
Notes the first part with 7 bars
Wonder if he ever got it back. Nice tune though
Come Back With My Bloody Car (jig)
To Fred Saur,
Any story behind this tune? Please share…
Come Back With My Bloody Car
No story about this, I don’t like unlinked tunes in recording page.
So, saturday morning, i met this lovely tune.
I find it very difficult to believe that there’s no story behind the title of this tune.
I bet Donogh Hennessy would know…
Unseen and Dow, you’re both right.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/27/1085461890098.html?from=storyrhs
Lunasa used to tell the story behind this tune from the stage before playing it, back when Donogh Hennessy was still in the band. To be more specific, Kevin Crawford would tell the story in his own iminitable way. I couldn’t do justice to Kevin’s telling of the story, so I’ll not even try. But the bare bones of it is that Donogh heard a commotion one night, looked out the window and saw someone stealing his car. (Apparently a not uncommon occurrence in today’s Dublin.) He ran screaming down the street after the guy in pursuit, unsuccessfully IIRC, and ended up writing and naming this tune in commemoration of the incident.
Okay, according to the news clip, it was Galway not Dublin where Donogh’s car was stolen. And he did get the car back in the end. OTOH, the news clip says it’s a song, not a tune, and I and most other folks on thesession know better than that. So who you gonna believe?
From the recording and from playing it I hear the first three bars of this tune as two bars of 9/8 then going into 6/8 for the rest. Could just be me though!
Come Back With My Bloody Car
I agree with you Tize, and update the meter of the first and second bar in the ABC… Thanks indeed