Splinter Mcleod's Jig

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X:47
T:Splinter Mcleod's Jig
% NFF Book 2023
% Bush Traditions recording played by Ray Mulligan
S:collected from Norm McConnell, Echlin South, Vic, fiddler
S:collected by John Meredith, NLA Bib ID 2066986
N:This is a version of the waltz "Viennese Nights" collected from Harry Cotter, Binalong, NSW
H:John Meredith records that McConnell learnt this tune from Scottish Piper
H:and drummer 'Splinter' McLeod, at Noorat sometime in the 1920s.  The original
H:is undiscovered as yet however, the tune appears in an audio visual as 
H:"La Valse Du Mariage",  Guidry Brothers 1929.
B:J Meredith, R Covell, & P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987, p311
R:Jig
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:G
Bc^c|"G"d2e d2B/A/|G3 GDG|B2d cAF|"D"D3 D2G|
"Am"A2G A2B|c3 cBc|"C"e2d "D7"e2d|1"G"B3Bc^c:|2"G"G3G2||
|:A|"G"BD>E D2A|BD>E D2B|"Am"A2B c2e|"D7"d3- d2c|
"G"BD>E D2A|BD>E D2B|"Am"A2B "D7"c>BA|"G"G3G2:|



Splinter Mcleod's Jig - played by Ray Mulligan

Additional Information

Additional information may be available on the following people or organisations associated with the collection of this tune:
| John Meredith | Norm McConnell |