"Cock o' the North"
(Auntie Mary, Gordon's March, Joan's Placket (Is Torn))
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Jig (Slide), D, AABB.
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Playing or Personal Notes:
No personal notes.
History
From the Session Tunes;
In less serious sessions and kitchen parties, the refrain,
"Auntie Mary had a canary
up the leg of her drawers,
She was sleeping, it was creeping,
up the leg of her drawers"
is often sung unaccompanied in the middle of the tune.
Figgy Duff, a now defunct Newfoundland trad-rock band, did a great version of this tune (on their self-titled debut album, I think). They coupled it with another tune called "Brother's Jig" (which again I have always assumed to a Newfoundland tune, but has a distinct "Irish" sound, so I could be wrong).
Our words to this tune were:
Auntie Mary had a canary
Up the leg of her drawers
When she farted, it departed
To a round of applause.
We had an old auntie Mary in our family who was *very* prim and proper and whenever these lines were sung, us kids would shriek with laughter.