5/30/07 The Return Home (edited title)

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:38 pm

05/30/07 Tony Higgins posts a jig, Saddle the Pony. I learned it from the Gaelic Roots cd.
edited with updated info (tune title)

Steamwalker · Post by **Steamwalker** » Wed May 30, 2007 9:22 pm

Sounds like Saddle the Pony.

Steamwalker · Post by **Steamwalker** » Wed May 30, 2007 9:29 pm

When I listed to your clip, I was racking my brain because it sounded so familiar. Just remembered where I heard it from: http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=50618

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:16 pm

I just listened to the youtube clip and I went to jc's tunefinder and downloaded Saddle the Pony. I just couldn't rectify my tune with either of those. ??
Tony

Steamwalker · Post by **Steamwalker** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:58 pm

Saddle the Pony also appears on the same page as yours, just further down. That one appears to be a band version of the tune. It is damn good tune.

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:03 pm

I just had a listen. I can hear phrases that appear in both, but I still can't make them the same tune.

Tony

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:47 pm

Yikes ... It's definitely not Saddle the Pony, no resemblance whatsoever.

Tony, your mystery jig is "The Return Home", a modern tune written by flute player Skip Healy. It's actually listed as such on the Gaelic Roots CD, and has also been recorded by Solas and several others:

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/379

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:27 pm

Thanks a million, MT. (I still have to go listen for myself as soon as I get home from work.) And I have Nugent's Two for Two. And I'll try the abc's on session.org. The more variations, the better.

Tony

MarkP · Post by **MarkP** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:35 am

MTGuru wrote:Yikes ... It's definitely not Saddle the Pony, no resemblance whatsoever.

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:41 pm

MarkP wrote:err... are you sure?

Er ... yes.

MarkP wrote:I think most people would refer to that tune by that name

Tony, care to chime in?

MarkP · Post by **MarkP** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:54 pm

sorry, talking at cross purposes I think, the thread got a bit confused there about which tune

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:54 pm

No problem, mate. I figured there was a mismatch of tunes involved here.