Thought I’d got this from Paul Hardy but no, it’s from a dude in Devon. https://youtu.be/ztXdof_PvBc https://www.dropbox.com/s/8v5vunjdtp...ridge.pdf?dl=0 X:1 T: The Road to Tunbridge S: Bernie Waugh R: Reel M: 4/4 L: 1/8 K: E Phrygian |:\ "Em"EEE2 B3A|B2G2 G2 B2|"Am"AAA2 e3 d|e2A2 "G"A2B2| "C"c3d e2g2|"D"dcBA B2G2|"Am"AAA2 "B"B3A|"Em"G2E2 E2 B2:| |:\ "G"GGG2 g3^f|g2d2 d2f2|"Am"eee2 a3g|"Em"a2e2 e2g2| "C"g2a2 e2f2|"D"dcBA B2G2|1\ "Am"AAA2 "B"B3A|"Em"G2E2 E4:|2\ "F"AAA2 "B"B3A|"C"G2E2 E4|]
Nice! I like the atmosphere of your recording together with the folks going away from the photographer/viewer.
Nice one, Simon and a fine set of pictures. This tune is very similar to the old Scottish air "Green Grow The Rashes (Rushes) Oh" immortalised by our National Bard Robert Burns around 1780 and still sung regularly here in Scotland.
Thanks Frithjof and John it’s my first recording in my new music studio. It’s the bathroom with lots of laundry hanging all over the place.
So you played with wet tuning?
The bathroom seems to inspire you, Simon!
That's such a great tune, and well played too! I'd never heard this before, but here I am pretending to play the drums to it on the side of the sofa! I used to live in Tonbridge in Kent, so I wonder which Tunbridge is meant in the title.
It has a certain mood of leaving, and those pics support that. Thanks to John for saying out loud what song this so urgently reminds me of, otherwise it would have haunted me all day
Nothing worse than an earworm you cannot get out of your head, Bertram. It would be interesting to trace the link between Green Grow The Rashes and the tune Simon plays here. Burns preserved so many of our Scottish tunes by adding lyrics to them (as well as being quite an accomplished fiddler too!)
Christian it's true the humidity in the bathroom improves the motivation to record. Get it over and done with. I wondered about the spelling too Dennis, I had a girlfriend once who left and went to Kent. I often wrote to her in TOnbridge-Wells. Funny too, that I've only just thought of her and realised why I recorded this tune. Yes, haunted is the word! Anything South of the Border is an earworm John! The tunes are uppity and short and sweet with inumerable variations and repeated over and over again. But tunes like this do provide for a great deal of impro, variation, so... Oh that song, Green grow the rushes oh! I really like the melody but there is a great variation in lyrics… some of the lyrics are quite morbid.
Just listened to it again, you may be right John, 2 minutes is probably plenty.
