The Boy In The Boat (reel) on The Session

This tune apears on Paddy Moloney and Sean Potts‘ ’Tin Whistles’ album, after The Connaught Heifers (if my memory serves me correctly). I have just written this out from memory, having been filtered through my ears and fingers, so it probably differs somewhat from the recording which I learnt it from (I’ve never heard anyone else play it).

AS a variation on the 1st part, bar 7 can be played:

| AFAd BGBd |.

In the 2nd part, bar 16 can be played:

| ~f3d efed | or | fAdf efed | .

This is almost exactly how I play the tune. Learned from a local banjo player, who, for all we know, got it from somebody who got it from the same recording…

Anatomical euphemism

Can anyone guess which aspect of the female anatomy is euphemistically referred to as the boy in the boat?

Which aspect of the female anatomy…

A goiter?

Uvula?

“Can anyone guess which aspect of the female anatomy is euphemistically referred to as the boy in the boat?”

I always heard it described as “the old man in the canoe”.