Vallafield

X: 1
T: Vallafield
C: trad Shetland
R: reel
N: Learned from Pam Swing, 1984
Z: John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: Tom Anderson "Ringing Strings" 1983
B: Tom Anderson and Tom Georgeson, 'Da Mirrie Dancers' 1970
N: Tom Anderson's writes:
N: This is the only trowie tune we know of from Unst.  The story goes that a man
N: heard  it  on his way home one evening when he stopped to have a smoke in the
N: shelter of Gullahammer at the south end of Vallafield. The music seemed to be
N: coming  out of the face of the rock and was very eerie.  Belief in those days
N: was that cold steel fended off evil spirits, so he  reached  for  his  pocket
N: knife. As his fingers touched the steel, the music stopped. He still retained
N: the tune in his memory, so when he got home he could  sing  it  over  to  his
N: daughter who played the fiddle.
M: C|
L: 1/8
K: C
G | "C"c2e c2e | "Am"ecA A2A | "G"Bcd dBG |1 "G"Bcd dBG :|2 "C"c3 c2 |]
|: d | "C"cBA "G"GAB | "G"dBA B2G | "C"cBA "G"GAB | "C"cBA "G"GAB |
y3 | "G"dBA B2G | "G"dBA B2G | "C"cBA "G"GAB |"C"c3 c2 :|

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