Spootiskerry
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BSFC 4-16 by Si Garbutt: According to the notes to Susan Songer's Portland Collection, which contains a couple of his tunes ("Spootiskerry" and "Bert Ferguson"), the late Samuel Ian Rothmar Burns lived in the Shetland Isles. Ian Burns, as he was known, published a book of tunes, also entitled "Spootiskerry". It is the name of a farm in his family. His daughter, June Mann, lives in Cunningsburgh in the Shetlands and gave the info to Susan Songer. I believe I read somewhere that "spoots" are some sort of shellfish - razor clams, I think (and a skerry is a group of rocks which are sometimes visible above sea-level, sometimes not, depending on the tide). The tune is sometimes known as "Spoot o' Skerry" and there is a young Celtic band of that name - from Canberra!
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X: 1
T: Spootiskerry
C: Ian Burns (Shetland)
N: BSFC 4-16
D: as trad by Fiddlers Five on CD 7
Z: John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: by Si Garbutt: According to the notes to Susan Songer's Portland
N: Collection, which contains a couple of his tunes ("Spootiskerry" and "Bert
N: Ferguson"), the late Samuel Ian Rothmar Burns lived in the Shetland Isles.
N: Ian Burns, as he was known, published a book of tunes, also entitled
N: "Spootiskerry". It is the name of a farm in his family. His daughter, June
N: Mann, lives in Cunningsburgh in the Shetlands and gave the info to Susan
N: Songer. I believe I read somewhere that "spoots" are some sort of shellfish
N: - razor clams, I think (and a skerry is a group of rocks which are
N: sometimes visible above sea-level, sometimes not, depending on the tide).
N: The tune is sometimes known as "Spoot o' Skerry" and there is a young
N: Celtic band of that name - from Canberra!
R: reel
M: C|
L: 1/8
K: G
|: DE | "G"G2DE GDEG | DEGA "D7"B2AB | "G"G2DE "Em"GABd | "Am"eged "D7"B2AB |
| "G"G2DE GDEG | DEGA B2AB | "C"g2ed "D7"edBA | "G"B2G2 G2 :|
[| ef || "G"g2ed "Em"edB2 | "C"BABG "D7"E2DE | "G"GABd "Em"eged | "Am"B2A2 "D7"A2ef |
| "G"g2ed "Em"edB2 | "C"BABG "D7"E2DE | "G"GABd "D7"eged | "G"B2G2 G2ef |
|| "G"g2ed "Em"edB2 | "C"BABG "D7"E2DE | "G"GABd "Em"eged | "Am"B2A2 "D7"A2DE |
| "G"G2DE GDEG | DEGA B2AB | "C"g2ed "D7"edBA | "G"B2G2 G2 |]
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