Form: Lament or Reel*
MP3: Played very slowly*
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Sheet Music: Click images to enlarge.
Melody
Low harmony, p.1
Low harmony p.2
And for historical interest, handwritten scores reproduced from the 1983 publication ‘Ringing Strings’ (see Note below):
Melody
Harmony
ABC:
X: 1
T:Da Slockit Light
T:Slow Air Cape Breton Style
C:Tom Anderson ,1969
S:Transcribed from Buddy MacMaster, Judique on the Floor
M:C
L:1/8
K:D
|:F<E|"D"D3 F A2 d2|"A"{g}fed<c "D"d2 A2|"G"B2 {B}d2 "D"A2 {c}d2|"Em"BAG<F "A7"E2 G/F/E|
"D"D3 F A2 d2|"A"{g}fed<c "D"d2 A2|"G"{A}B2 G2 {B}AGF<E|"D"D6:|
g2|"D"{e}f2 a2 "A"{f}e3 c|"G"{e}d3 e "D"dcB<A|"D"f2 {g}a2 "E7"e2 ^g2|"A7"{g}a4 g2|
"D"{e}f2 a2 "A"{f}e3 c|"G"{e}d3 e {e}dcB<A|"Em"{A}B2 G2 "A7"{B}AGF<E|"D"{E}D6 g2|
"D"{e}f2 a2 "A"{f}e3 c|"G"{e}d3 e {e}dcB<A|"G"{A}B2 {B}d2 "D"A2 {c}d2|"Em"{A}BAG<F "A7"E2 G/F/E|
D3 F A2 {e}d2|{g}fed
Youtube: (The first video is Tom Anderson himself playing his tune on the occasion of his 80th birthday)
Source: J Tom Anderson
Other Tunes in Set: Da Brig, Lay Dee at Dee
Region: Shetland
*Notes: See the caption on the handwritten melody sheet music above. Tom Anderson played this tune at a slow pace, like a lament, given the sad story he relates. But my experience is that it can have a charming tendency to speed up.
Site visitor Julian Taylor writes that the handwritten score above was “handwritten by Catriona MacDonald who, at the time, was Tom’s accomplice and the leading light in the new Lerwick based fiddle group, Shetland’s Young Heritage, commonly known as Tammy’s Peerie Angels…. It was quite an undertaking for her at, I think, 12 years old.”
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