The Old Woman’s Dance jig

Composed by Donald MacLeod and available in the 2nd of his pipe collections

This is recorded also on trk3 of John Wilsons ‘the worlds greatest piper vol 5’

thesession.org does it again. This tune has been haunting me ever since I heard Brighde Chaimbeul play this on her unbelievable “ Reeling ” release. I’ve got the memory of a gold fish at times and tunes surface and go and float around and every now and then I do something positive like sit down and try and learn them. This has been in that camp for far too long. I have just had a major lovein with Brigdhe’s piping on youtube and was suddenly struck with the notion to try finding this here. Why hadn’t I done it before?! Memory of a goldfish, so it goes. Thanks Borderpiper for posting this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CMpAMG-UyE

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Fred Morrison calls it ‘The old wife’s dance’.
He does a neat variation on it too; listen to it here (at 3’35"),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9plO1GUPsI

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