Annotation:Jimmy o' the Bu's Polka
X: 1 T: Jimmy O' The Bu's Polka M: 4/4 L: 1/8 R: barndance / schottische / polka N:1st and 3rd parts of "The Silverton Polka" S:http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3118 K: Dmaj |: A2 A2 A>FA<d | c2 B2 B2 e>d | c2 c2 c>AB>c | d>cd>e f>ed>B | A2 A2 A>FA<d | c2 B2 B2 e>d |c2 c2 c>AB>c | d2 f2 d2 B2 :| |: A2 f2 f>ed>c | B2 g2 g3 f | e2 a2 ^g2 a2 | b2 a2 ^g2 a2 | A2 f2 f>ed>c | B2 g2 g3 b | a2 f2 g2 e2 | d2 f2 d4 :|
JIMMY O' THE BU'S POLKA. AKA and see "old Polka (The)." Scottish, Polka. Scotland, Orkney Islands. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. An un-named tune from the island of Hoy in the south of Orkney, called after its source. The tune is played as a polka on Orkney, despite the 4/4 setting which lends itself to interpretations as a barndance or schottische. The first strain is cognate with (but not identical) to "Beatrice Hill's Three Handed Reel," and the second strains are harmonically congruent although melodically different.
