X:1
T:Chase me Charlie
D:Jackie Daly, "Many's a Wild Night", track 13(c)
M:12/8
L:1/8
R:slide
K:A
e ||: "A" cdc cBc Ace "E" gfe | "A" cdc cBA "Bm" Bce "D" ~f2 e |
"A" cdc cBc Ace "E" gfe |1 "A"cdc "E" BcB "A" AEE "E" E2 e :|2 "F#m" cdc "E" BcB "A" A3 A2 e ||
||: "A" fea "D" ~f2 e "A" fea "D" ~f e | "A" cdc cBA "Bm" Bce "D" ~f2 e |
"A" fea "D" ~f2 e "A" fea "D" ~f2 e |1 "A" cdc "E" BcB "A" A3 A2 e :||2 "F#m" cdc "E" BcB "A" A3 A3 ||
CHASE ME CHARLIE. AKA and see "Cock of the North (3)," "Lean mé a Chathail." Irish, Slide (12/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See note for "annotation:Cock of the North (3)," of which "Chase me, Charlie" is a version. The title comes from a bawdy ditty sung to the tune in the Ireland, Britain and Scotland, called "Auntie Mary (had a canary)" in many places, or "Chase Me Charlie." The words go:
Auntie Mary had a canary,
Up the leg of her drawers;
She pulled a string to hear it sing,
And down came Santa Claus.
or:
She was sleepin', I was peepin',
Up the leg of her drawers.
CHO:
Chase me, Charlie, find my barley
Up the leg of me drawers;
Don't believe me, come and feel me,
Up the leg of my drawers.
Uncle Jock, he had a sock,
Up the pleat of his kilt;
When he was a-sleepin, we were a-peepin,
To see how well he was built.
Cousin Minnie wore a bikini,
Underneath her shirt;
A handsome guy he tried to spy,
And she kicked him where it hurt.
The latter is obviously a more recently composed verse, with its reference to a bikini, but there must be dozens of such doggerel verses in the tradition. Not incidentally, "Chase me, Charlie" is the title of a Charlie Chaplin comedy film from 1918.
Additional notes
Source for notated version : - "Session musicians in Newmarket, County Cork" [Sullivan].
Printed sources : - Beisswenger (Irish Fiddle Music from Counties Cork and Kerry), 2012; p. 15. Sullivan (Session Tunes, vol. 3),; No. 17, p. 7.
Recorded sources : - Gael Linn CEF176, Jackie Daly - "Many's a Wild Night." Globestyle Irish CDORBD 085, The Kerry Fiddle Trio (Padraig O'Keefe, Denis Murphy, Julia Clifford) - "The Rushy Mountain" (1994. Reissue of Topic recordings). RTE 174CD, Padraig O'Keefe & Denis Murphy - "The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Master" (1995, originally recorded in 1948-49, played in a medley with "I'd Rather be Married than Left," and "The Kilcummin Slide"). Tara 10029, Seamus Ennis - "The Best of Irish Piping."
See also listing at :
See also listing at Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1].
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