Annotation:Port na giobóige

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X:1 T:Port na giobóige S:Séamus Ennis M:4/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:Breathnach & Small - CRE V (1999, No. 152) K:G dc|BG{A}GF {A}G2 dB|cA{c}AG {AB}A2 Bd|edgd ed{c}BG|BA{c}AG A2...

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PORT NA GIOBÓIGE. Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’. The title, says editor Jackie Small (CRÉ V), literally translates as 'tune of the scrap/rag'. Other translations of the title are "The untidy woman's tune," "Tune of the old hag," or, roughly, "Tune of the silly woman." In a 1960's RTE broadcast sean nos singer Joe Heaney told piper Séamus Ennis a story about the tune which held that two sons, Tadhg and Dónall, were working in a field binding together sheaves of oats, while their mother, a widow, sat at a spinning wheel in the nearby cottage. As a trick, the sons dress one of the sheaves in a man's suit and station it near the cottage door, where it loomed as if a suitor had come calling. The mother, taken in and getting quite nervous, focused even harder at her task and began to spin faster and faster, until she became quite "silly."

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