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 :|