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Notation Note: The tunes below are recorded in what is called “abc notation.” They can easily be converted to standard musical notation via highlighting with your cursor starting at “X:1” through to the end of the abc’s, then “cutting-and-pasting” the highlighted notation into one of the many abc conversion programs available, or at concertina.net’s incredibly handy “ABC Convert-A-Matic” at

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**Please note that the abc’s in the Fiddler’s Companion work fine in most abc conversion programs. For example, I use abc2win and abcNavigator 2 with no problems whatsoever with direct cut-and-pasting. However, due to an anomaly of the html, pasting the abc’s into the concertina.net converter results in double-spacing. For concertina.net’s conversion program to work you must remove the spaces between all the lines of abc notation after pasting, so that they are single-spaced, with no intervening blank lines. This being done, the F/C abc’s will convert to standard notation nicely. Or, get a copy of abcNavigator 2 – its well worth it.   [AK]

 

 

 

CIA IAD 'UR DEE 'S 'UR DUILE TREUN. AKA and see "Where Are Your Gods and Mighty Hopes?"

 

CIA MAR IS URRA SINN FUIREACH O'N DRAM (How Shall We Abstain From Whiskey). AKA and see "How Shall We Abstain from Whisky?" "Constant Billy," "The Legacy [1]." Scottish. Composed by John MacMurdo of Kintail in the 18th century, a later emigrant to America.

 

CIARAN O’REILLY. AKA and see “Master Seamus.” Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AA’BB. The tune was composed by fiddler Charlie Lennon who originally titled it “Master Seamus.” The man whose name is associated with the tune, Ciaran Ó Raghaillaigh, is a fiddler from Dublin with a strong Cavan background, active since the 1960’s, associated with the Abbey Tavern players, according to Finbar Boyle. Miller (Fiddler’s Throne), 2004; No. 136, pg. 89. Nimbus NI 5320, Tommy Peoples & Seamus Gibson - “Fiddle Sticks: Irish Traditional Music from Donegal” (1991).

X:1

T:Ciaran Ó Raghallaigh

T:Master Seamus

C:Charlie Lennon

M:4/4

L:1/8

Z:Ted Hastings

K:G

B,C|DB, ~B,2 DGBG|FC ~C2 EGcG|FD ~D2 FAdc|edcd BGEG|

DG,B,D GB,DG|ECDE GCEG|FADF AcBA|1 GFAF G2:|2 GEDB, G,2||

Bc|dggf gdBd|eccB ceag|fddc dfc'b|agfe dcBc|

d2 Bd gdBd|~c2 Bc ABAF|EccB cBAG|FDCA, G,2:||

 

CIARAN TOURISH. Canadian, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard. AA’BB’. Composed by fiddlers Jerry Holland (Inverness, Cape Breton) and his neighbor Dougie MacDonald (Queensville, Inverness County, Cape Breton) in honor of Donegal fiddler Ciaran Tourish from Buncrana, County Donegal, who has toured with the bands Altan and De Dannan. MacDonald wrote the first half, Holland the second. Cranford (Jerry Holland’s), 1995; No. 102, pg. 30. Odyssey ORCS 1051, Jerry Holland – “Fiddler’s Choice” (1999).

 

CIARAN'S CEOLTA TIRE. Irish, Polka. The title Seamus Connolly gave to a polka played by Paddy Neill of Newport, County Tipperary, heard on Ciaran MacMathuna's weekly program of Irish music on Radio Eireann. Green Linnett GLCD 1087, Seamus Connolly - "Notes From My Mind" (1988).

 

CIARRAIOCH MALLAITHE, AN (The Accursed Kerryman). AKA and see “The Accursed Kerryman.”

 

CIDER. AKA and see "Cider Mill."

 

CIDER APPLES (Afalau Seidr). Welsh, Hornpipe. Comosed by Welsh Triple Harp player Robin Huw Bowen. It “commemorates a wild dancing trip to Somerset , where the hosting side showed us a cider-mill in the morning, and several members of my team decided to get our ears pierced that afternoon. Flying Fish FF70610, Robin Huw Bowen – “Telyn Berseiniol Fy Bgwlad/The Sweet Harp of My Land” (1996).

 

CIDER MILL. AKA - "Cider." AKA and see "Stillhouse." Old‑Time, Breakdown. D Major. ADae. ABB'. A Blue Ridge dance tune, popular in Patrick County and the Galax, Va./Mt. Airy, N.C. areas.

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William Sydney Mount (1807-1868). Cider Making.

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Paul Tyler finds this vignette in W.H. Venable’s Footprints of the Pioneers of the Ohio Valley: A Centennial Sketch (1888):

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The old-time apple-cutting was an occasion of unbounded mirth. . . . After
the apples were cut, and the cider boiled, the floor was cleared for a
"frolic," technically so-called, and merry were the dancers and loud the
songs with which our fathers and mothers regaled the flying hours.  The
fiddler was a man of importance, and when, after
midnight, he called the
"Virginia Reel," such shouting, such laughter, such clatter of hilarious
feet upon the sanded puncheon floor, startled the screech-owl out of doors,
and waked the baby from its sweet slumber in the sugar-trough. . . .  The
apple-cutting was fifty years ago . . .

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Source for notated version: Bruce Molsky with Bob Carlin [Phillips]. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; pg. 53. County Records, Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham & Oscar Jenkins ‑ "Down to the Cider Mill." Living Folk LFR‑104, Allan Block ‑ "Alive and Well and Fiddling." Rounder 0197, Bob Carlin (with Bruce Molsky)‑ "Banging and Sawing" (1985).

           

CIEL D’AUTOMNE (Autumn Sky). French, Air. Composed by Andre Brunet after the death of his father, when he felt his father’s spirit looking down on his young son from the autumn sky.

                                   

CILL' A CHASAIDH. AKA and see "Killachassy."

                       

CILL ABHAILL (Killavil). AKA and see “Killavil Reel [1].”

                       


CILL BEATHACH (Kilbaha). AKA and see "Tom(m) Steele," "The Laurel Groves." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AB. Breathnach (1963) says there is a ‘faulty version’ called “Tom Steele” (a colleague of the Irish statesman Daniel O’Connell) in Kerr’s Violin Instructor and Irish Folk Song Album (83). Source for notated version: fiddler John Kelly/Sean O'Kelly (Ireland) [Breathnach]. Breathnach (CRE I), 1963; No. 196, pg. 76.

 

CILL CHAIS. AKA - “What are we going to do without timber?” Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). Ireland, County Clare. E Minor. Standard. One part (Ó Canainn): AB (Russell). The tune appears as “An Arran Air” in Hoffman’s 1877 arrangement of melodies mostly taken from the George Petrie collection. Russell (The Piper’s Chair), 1989; pg. 28. Ó Canainn (Traditional Slow Airs), 1995; No. 90, pg. 77.

 

CILLE CHOIRILL (Cairell's Bell). Scottish, Slow Air (3/4 time) and Pipe March (6/8 time). C Major. Standard. One part. The air was composed by Kenneth Kennedy, with the pipe march setting by Pipe Major Stewart (Mrs.). According to Neil (1991), the title is taken from the name of the ancient burial ground in the Braes of Lochaber, and is named for Saint Cairell. Cairell was originally an Irish missionary who crossed the Irish sea in small hide‑covered frame boats, called coracles, to Scotland around 600 A.D., accompanied by some followers. After proselytising in Scotland for some time he returned to his native Ireland to live in the monastery at Clonkeen‑Kerrie, where he died.  Though "a humble and unostentatious man, small in stature, with poor health but strong in spirit," Cairell's ministry in Scotland was successful and there are a number of sites in that country associated with him, including Glen Urquhart, Appin, Tayniult, and Ruthven parish in Banffshire, "where both a cairn and a well are named after him."  The graveyard bearing the Saint's name is the resting place of many generations of Highlanders, including some of the composer's ancestors who struggled at Culloden and with Wolfe at Quebec, and the similarly ancient church is thought to have been built by Cameron of Lochiel sometime in the 1400's to atone for his sins.

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Oh where in the whole world, such beauty and grace,

As Cille Chairill in the braes of Lochaber,

'Neath the green mossy mounds many clans lie asleep,

All around are the hills they did wander.

In this heaven on earth rest ancestors blest;

Their children so true, shall never forget

Till the hills fade away and the last tune is played,

With love, they will always remember.

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Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 155, pg. 201.

                       

CIMETIERE. See "La Queue d'Tortue."

                       

CINCINNATI [1]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Cumberland Plateau (Ky./Tenn. border area). Rounder CD 0238, John Lusk Band - "Altamont: Black String Band Music From the Library of Congress." Tune also recorded by Blaine Smith on Pine Breeze Records.

 

CINCINNATI [2]. American, Quickstep March. A Major. Standard. AABB. Bruce & Emmett’s Drummers’ and Fifers’ Guide, 1862; pg. 58.

X:1

T:Cincinnati

M:2/4

L:1/8

R:Quickstep March

S:Bruce & Emmett’s Drummers’ & Fifers’ Guide  (1862)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

E | A/B/c/d/ e/A/~A | f/A/g/A/ a/A/~A | F/d/E/c/ D/B/C/A/ | B/d/c/B/ A/G/F/E/ |

A/B/c/d/ e/A/~ A | f/A/g/A/ a/A/~A | F/d/E/c/ D/B/C/A/ | c/B/A/G/ A :: c/d/ |

e/A/~A f/A/~A | a/g/a/e/ f/e/d/c/ | (f/^e/f/).c/ (d/c/d/).F/ | G/d/c/B/ A/G/F/E/ |

A/B/c/d/ e/A/~A | f/A/g/A/ a/A/~A | F/d/E/c/ D/B/C/A/ | c/B/A/G/ A :| 

                       


CINCINNATI (LANCASHIRE) CLOG. American, Clog or Hornpipe. G Major. Standard. AABB. The composition credited to one Frank Livingston in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 122. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 160.

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T:Cincinnati (Lancashire) – Clog

M:C

L:1/8

R:Clog

S:Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

(d>c) | B>db>a g>ec>e | d>ed>B G>DG>B | A>cf>e d>cB>A | G>FG>e d2 d>c | B>db>a g>ec>e |

d>ed>B G>DG>B | A>cf>e d>cB>A | G2 {f}g2 G2 :: (B>^A) | =A>ce>g c’>ba>g | f>ba>f d>cd>^d |

f>ec>A G>Af>e | e>dA>F D2 B>^A | =A>ce>g c’>ba>g | f>ba>f d>cd>^d | f>ec>A b>ag>e |1

d2f2d2 :|2 (3dDF (3A=cd f>ed>c ||

                       

CINCINNATI HORNPIPE [1]. AKA and see "Brown's Hornpipe," "Cliff Hornpipe," "Cork Hornpipe [1]," "Dundee Hornpipe," "Fisherman's Favorite," "Fred Wilson's Clog," "Granny Will Your Dog Bite" (Pa.), "Harvest Home [1]," "Kephart's Clog" (Pa.), "Kildare Fancy," "Higgins’ Hornpipe," "Lady of the Lake [4]" (Burchenal), "Ruby Lip," "Snyder's Jig," "Standard Hornpipe," "Wilson's Clog [1],” “Zig-Zag Hornpipe/Clog." American, Hornpipe. USA; New England, Arkansas, Missouri. D Major. Standard. One part (Burchenal): AABB (most versions). The composition has occasionally been credited to “Fischer,” without further explanation. The tune has been used in New England for the dance "Lady of the Lake," and has been sometimes called by that name. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. It was in the repertoires of Ohio fiddler Estill Adams, Nebraska fiddler Bob Walters (b. 1889) and Missouri fiddler Kelly Jones (b. 1947), who, having the ability to read music, learned this and other tunes from Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes, as previous sight-reading mid-western fiddlers had learned such tunes from both Cole's 1000 and its predecessor, Ryan's Mammoth Collection. Many of the alternate titles listed above are not exact duplicates of the tune, but rather tunes which share a similar prominent melodic motif. Sources for notated versions: Kelly Jones (Mo.) [Phillips]; VivianWilliams (Seattle) [Silberberg]. Burchenal (American Country Dances, Vol. 1), 1917; pg. 35. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 88. Miller & Perron (New England Fiddlers Repertoire), 1983; No. 125. Appears in "Old Familiar Dances," Theodore Presser Co. Page (Ralph Page Book of Contras), 1969; pg. 13. Page (Heritage Dances of Early America); No. or pg. 15. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 2, 1995; pg. 186. Silberberg (93 Fiddle Tunes I Didn’t Learn at Tractor Tavern), 2004; pg. 8. Sweet (Fifer’s Delight), 1964/1981; pg. 51. Tolman (Nelson Music Collection), 1969; pg. 15. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 121. White’s Unique Collection, 1896; No. 137, pg. 24. F&W Records 1, "F&W String Band." June Appal 003, John McCutcheon ‑ "How Can I Keep From Singing" (1975. Learned from fiddler Tommy Hunter, Mars Hill, N.C.). Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers' Association, Bob Walters - "Drunken Wagoneer." Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers' Association, Kelly Jones - "Authentic Old-Time Fiddle Tunes."

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T:Cincinnati Hornpipe [1]

M:C|

L:1/8

K:D

DA FA DA FA|dA fA eA fA|gA fA ed cd|ed cB AG FE|

DA FA DA FA|dA fA eA fA|gA fA ed cB|cd eg fd d2:|

Dd dd ce ee|df ff eg gg|fg af bg ec|d2f2d2A2:|

 

CINCINNATI HORNPIPE [2]. American, Hornpipe. G Major (‘A’ part) & C Major (‘B’ part). No relation to “Cincinnati Hornpipe [1]." From a field recording of Washington Courthouse, Ohio, fiddler Estil Adams, made by the late Jeff Goehring.

                       

CINCINNATI RAG [1]. AKA and see "Trilby's Clog." Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA. G Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard. AB. The melody was printed in 1896 by White‑Smith, Universal Series, as "Trilby's Clog." Source for notated version: Bob Walters (Burt County, Nebraska) [Christeson]. R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddler’s Repertory, Vol. 2), 1984; pg. 72.

 

CINCINNATI RAG [2]. Old-Time, Country Rag. G Major. Standard. AA'BB'. No apparent relation to "Cincinnati Rag [1]." Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 2, 1995; pg. 31.

                       

CINDERELLA WALTZ. AKA and see "The Green Hills of Tyrol [1],” “Spanish Waltz [1]." English, American; Waltz. G Major (Raven, Howe/Diamond): C Major (Howe/Accordeon). Standard. AAB (Howe): AABB (Raven). Howe (Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon), 1843; pg. 21. Howe (Diamond School for the Violin), c. 1861. Kennedy (Fiddler’s Tune Book), Vol. 2, 1954; pg. 29. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 132.

X:1

T:Cinderella Waltz

M:3/4

L:1/8

S:Elias Howe – Diamond School for the Violin  (c. 1861)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

DGA|B2 BGBc|d2 deBe|dcAFAe|dBGDGA|B2 BGBc|

e2 eA^cA|de^cede|=cdBdAd|G2 z|DGA|B2 BGBc|

G2 GDBD|G2 z2 G2|g4 fe|ed dz e2|dc cz d2|cB Bz G2|

g2g2a2|g2 a2 b2|af d2 ef|gfgdfd|gfgdfd|g2 dcBA|G4:|

                       


CINDY [1]. AKA and see "Cindy in the Summertime," "Cindy in the Meadows,"  "Get Along Home (Miss) Cindy," "Git Along, Cindy," "J'etais au Bal," "Old Time Cinda," "Run Along Home, Cindy,"   "Whoop 'Em Up Cindy,"  Old‑Time, Song and Breakdown. USA; Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi. D Major (most versions): G Major (John Brown). Standard or ADae tuning. AB (Brody): AABB (Phillips/1989 {the 'B' part is 'crooked' in Phillip's version}): AA'BB (Phillips, 1994). A widely known frolic tune, appearing in many folk music collections and even old elementary school songbooks. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954, and was recorded for the Library of Congress in 1939 by Mississippi fiddler John Brown. A very popular Cajun version of the tune, probably borrowed from the American song, is "J'etais au Bal" (I Went to the Dance Last Night).  Verses set to the tune are many, including several "floaters":

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Cindy in the summertime, Cindy in the fall,

Can't have Cindy all the time, don't want Cindy at all.

Chorus

Get along home, get along home,

Get along home, Cindy, fare you well.

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You ought to see my Cindy, she lives way down South,

She's so sweet the honey bees all swarm around her mouth.

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Wish I had a needle as fine as it could sew,

I'd sew that gal to my coat‑tail, and down the road I'd go.

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Went upon the mountain, to give my horn a blow,

Hollered back to Cindy, oh yander she go. (Rosenbaum)

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When I was a little lad, about six inches high,

I used to court the pretty girls to hear the old folks cry;

Get a‑long down, down Big Sandy, Get a‑long down, down Big Sandy,

Get a‑long down, down Big Sandy, that's the place for you.             (Thomas & Leeder)

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The Big Sandy River, referred to in Thomas & Leeder's lyric, forms the border between Kentucky and West Virginia and flows into the Ohio River at Catlettsburg, Ky.  It was a flat‑boat trade route before the advent of the railroads. See also similar stanzas printed by African-American collector Thomas Talley in Negro Folk Rhymes (1922) under the title “She Hugged Me and Kissed Me.” A song derived from the well-known “Cindy”, is a “Cindy” from the singing of Dan Tate (b. 1896), of Fancy Gap, Carroll County, Va.. It goes:

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Railroad, a plank road,

A river and canal;

If it hadn’t have been for Doctor Grey,

There never would have been any hell.

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Cho:

Get along home Cindy,

Get along home I say;

Get along home Cindy girl,

For I am a-going away.

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A railroad, a plank road,

A river and canoe;

If it hadn’t have been for old John Jones,

They never would a-killed old Jude.

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Tate said that Jude was a slave of a Doctor Gray, who abused her when she became pregnant and would not tell who the father of her child was.

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Sources for notated versions: New Lost City Ramblers [Brody]; Alan Block [Phillips]; Fox Fraley (Lawrence County, Ky., 1911) [Thomas & Leeder]. Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; pg. 69. Phillips (Fiddlecase Tunebook), 1989; pg. 10. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; pg. 53. Rosenbaum (Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia), 1989; pgs. 12‑13. Thomas and Leeder (The Singin’ Gathering), 1939; pg. 23. County 405, "The Hill‑Billies." County 518, Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers‑ "Echoes of the Ozarks, vol. I" (appears as "Get Along Home Miss Cindy"). County 544, Clayton McMichen‑ "Georgia Fiddle Bands, Vol. 2." Document 8039, “The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters: Compoe