X:1
T:The Boodulum
B:C K Sharpe's Ms Music Book c1835
N:"Irish"
Z:Nigel Gatherer
M:9/8
L:1/8
K:D
Bcd ABG FED|Bcd ABG FGA|Bcd ABG FEF|DED AGF EFA:|]
BEE BAG FED|BEE BAG FGA|BEE BAG FEF|DED AGF EFA:|]
d2 d dfd cBA|d2 d dfa gfe|d2 d dfd cBA|dcB ABG FGA:|]
ROODULUM. AKA - "Boodulum (The)." Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. William Campbell published the tune as the second of a set of an "Irish Medley", following the 6/8 jig "Jackson's Dream." The tune was recorded as "The Boodulum" in the music manuscripts of C.K. Sharpe, c. 1835.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - William Campbell (Campbell’s 14th Book of New and Favorite Country Dances & Strathspey Reels for the Harp, Piano-Forte & Violin, with their Proper Figures, as Danced at Court, Bath, Williss’s, & Hanover Square Rooms), Soho, London, c. 1799; p. 22.
