Greensleeves jig

A friend of mine taught me this jig that we usually play in our country as a basis for the Circassian Circle dance. He also called “Canadese” the set of tunes which includes this tune as 1st one. I look for the true tutle.

Very similar to The Bunch of Roses https://thesession.org/tunes/7959

But ‘duplication’ or ‘cousin’? I’m not prepared to say. I’m all ears and no brain.

You mean this? https://thesession.org/tunes/709

Yeah, that’s what I meant. I left schoiol at 27, so I never learnt to count properly.

…or spel.

The tune here has a stronger similarity to “Greensleeves & Y L” than it has to “The Bunch of Roses” The ‘B’ music of this tune makes it different to “Bunch of Roses” sufficiently so in character & feel. This one is certainly un-Irish whereas, to me, the ‘B’ music of “Bunch of Roses” has an Irish feel.

“Greensleeves & Yellow Lace” is found in the Playford Dancing Master collection of 1721. English Courtly dances.

M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: Jig
K: G min
|: A | B2B B>cd | cAF F>GA | B2B G>AB | A>G^F/^E/ D2A | B2B B>cd | cAF F>GA | B>AG A2^F | G3 G :||
|: ^e | f2f f>ed | cAF F2f | gab a2g | fdd d2^e | f2f f>ed | cAF F2A | B>AG A2^F | G3 G :||

I hope I’ve got the dotted triplets right. e.g. bar 1. B>cd
It is a very stately dance so the speed is steady and with plenty of emphasis on the dotted quavers in some of the triplets.

Thanks to hetty I found the same tune in “O’Neill: The Dance music of Ireland (1001 gems)” n.209. The first name is “Greensleeves” (and sounds very near to the famous air, but in 6/8 jig). O’Neill also calls it “Little bogtrotter” as you can find in the index book.

Here’s a Morris take:
X:1
T:Bacca Pipes
R:Jig
C:
S:Bacon (MDT)
N:
A:Bampton
O:English
P:A.(AB)2.A
M:6/8
K:ADor
%P:A/2.(AB)$^2$.A
P:A
|: c3 B2 c | d2 B G3 | cdc A2 c | B2 G E3 |
c2 B c2 e | d2 B G2 B | c2 A B2 G | A3 A3 :|
P:B
|: g3 g2 e | d2 B B3 | g3 g2 g | a2 g e3 |
efg g2 e | d2 B G2 B | c2 A B2 G | A3 A3 :|

Key signature: e minor
Submitted on April 17th 2003 by tufbo.
https://thesession.org/tunes/1598

Key signature: G Dorian
Submitted on October 19th 2006 by usedbullfrog.
https://thesession.org/tunes/6270

X:1
T: Greensleeves
O: trad.
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K:ADor
AB | c2c c>de | dBG G>AB | c2A A>Bc | B2^G E2B
c2c c>de | dBG G>AB | c>BA B^G2 | A3 z :|
|: ef | g2g g>fe | d>BG G2g | a2b c’ba | g>ee e2f
g2g g>fe | d>BG GAB | c>BA B^G2 | A3 z :|

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUkGAa6J-H8

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Old video, played on a kind of ocarina (at 3:00)

The version from the Winders of Wyresdale tunebooks. AKA Kick my A**e (Sic), a reference to the traditional Wyresdale dance..

There are lots of versions of the Wyresdale Greensleeves dance on YouTube
https://youtu.be/m3C3iJb5SeM

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From my notes..

The tune used for the Wyresdale Dance that Cecil Sharpe collected in 1911 and marked Kick My A**e in JWDM. Key sig A major in JWDM & Pe. This sounds strange and I think it more likely it was played in key sig.G as in (JaW). This simple Dorian mode version, avoids the Italianate accidentals of the better known version.
Amongst the many Morris versions that Sharpe collected around 1905, Bacca Pipes from Hinton and Bampton and Greensleeves from Stanton Harcourt are very similar to this one.
Song from the Isle of Skye, noted by James Boswell:
Green sleeves and pudding pies; Tell me where my true love lies, And I’ll be with her before she rise, Fiddle and aw’ together.

More info at.

www.andyhornby.net/Winders.html