A Bottle Of Vodka, Twenty Marlboro Reds And £50 Cashback, Please jig

Pretty sure this was written by Fraser Shaw, Kevin O’Neill and John Somerville.

There’s a recording of it at http://www.myspace.com/treacherousorchestra . It’s the last tune of “The Rabbit”.

It was indeed, they wrote one part each. Absolute cracker it is too.

I would say however that there is a bar missed out in the first part?

Should it not be more along the lines of the following since there is only 7 bars at present?

a2d dcd|Bcd cBA|BGB cBd-|dcA Bag|
f2d dcd| Bcd cBa | Bcd c3|1 cde de/f/g:|2 cde dcA||

Bogman, do you happen to know the story behind the name?

The full title of the tune is ‘A bottle of Vodka, forty embassy red and £50 cashback, please’. Written for a Glasgow character, sound engineer Dave Town. The title is self explanatory. The last part was more of a combined effort apparently. Pity the missing bar in the first part sheetmusic can’t be fixed.

sorry about that missing bar, ill fix it in the abc. i played it a couple of days ago and realised ive been missing it out whilst playing it too! i thought something wasnt right…

https://thesession.org/tunes/11347

Tried the link above for a recording, but it is apparently long gone. A search on YouTube came up with this - nice set, too!

http://youtu.be/2GbvU3H4g98

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Third tune here in this nice jig set from Luan: https://youtu.be/RPaUi764Az8

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Just for the archive here is the version of the tune as originally written down by Fraser Shaw, even though it isn’t usually played quite like this.

This is the way I play it. It’s a mix between the version that was published on “Mac Ìle, The Music of Fraser Shaw”, and the way I heard it played by a friend at a session in Glasgow a few years ago.