A Sea Breeze...tunes quoted?

[Trapdoor2]

I've just finished TAB of "A Sea Breeze". Yet another cool JM tune, of course.

However, I'm at a loss to identify one of the tunes he quotes.

The A part and B part are presumably JM's own...although they certainly sound like typical folk hornpipes (presumably. It is a Sea Breeze, after all).

It is the C part (which starts at M30 as the piece shifts to Cmaj) that is unfamiliar...and I've never heard it. Beautiful tune, perhaps a hymn of some sort?

Of course, even I recognize the D part ("Rule, Britannia")...and the E part is just The Sailor's Hornpipe (actually "College Hornpipe" but that's another discussion).

So, my UK friends (or anybody else out there)...name that tune!

[Richard William Ineson]

It's Tom Bowling. I think that the A&B parts are a tune called 'Skipping up the Rigging'.

[Trapdoor2]

Thanks Richard! "Tom Bowling" it is. Beautiful piece, I found an early recording of Welsh tenor Ben Davies singing it (~1910).

I haven't found any reference to "Skipping Up The Rigging" except as a fairly common lyric in several tunes (none of which sound like the beginning of SB).

 

[Richard William Ineson]

I played SB at the Whitby folk club one night and the resident singer, who has a phenomenal memory for songs of all kinds told me that it was called 'Skipping up the Rigging'. I've never heard it in any other context, so who knows?

[Trapdoor2]

Yah. I'll just keep it in the back of my mind. Maybe I'll run across a reference one day that will solve it.