We owe the recordings on thisLP to the work, yet again, of Peter Kennedy. The sleeve notes also say he was one of the best known musiciansin his area. He was then able to eventually join his father’s band. Ned Pearson was a gamekeeper on the estate of Sir Charles Trevelyan (goodness knows who he was) He kept pinching his father’s fiddle to learn on until his father found out and decided to get him violin lessons. F Why did you let it go Bb Because it bit my finger so. Here is my transposition in the Key of ‘G’ī2B2 | AG G2 | FG AB | d^c =c2 | c2 c2 | BA A2 | GF EF | AG G2 :||ĭ2 GA | B3A/B/ | cc ED | B4 | dd A>A |BB G>G | AA EF | 1 GF ED :|| 2 G4 ||īF BF | BF F/E/F/A/ | GE E>G | FB B2 | BF BF | BF F/E/F/A/ | GE EA/G/ | FD D2 |ī2B2 | AG G2 | FG AB | d^c =c2 | c2 c2 | BA A2 | GF EF | AG G2 ||Ī 64 bar arrangement. One, two, three, four, five, Bb Once I caught a fish alive, Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, C F Then I let it go again. I have an LP published in 1976 of recordings made in the North-East entitled ‘Holey Ha’penny’ on which a fiddle player from Morpath area of Northumberland namely Ned Pearson plays a version of this tune named “Heel & Toe Polka” K: Gmaj ~ | FB, B,>^A | ~ or simply ~ | FB, B,2 | ~ Late, but I suspect closer to the earlier form of this, and for the sake of all concerned, in both keys again ~ starting low this time ~ □Ĭ2 c>B | BA A>A | GF EF |[1 ED D :|[2 G3 ||īE BE/E/ | BE E>F | GE E/F/G/E/ | FB B>^A |Ī>A c/B/A | c3 d | e>e dc | BA G/A/G/E/ | I have a sneaking suspicion I’d come across it your way, or close if not exact, via the beribboned and bejangled brigade ~ Morris dancers & musicians… □ If I’d remembered that I would have probably given this transcription as follows and added my other take on it, that given for ‘Fish’, in the comments. Here’s another transcription for it along your lines, dragged up from the net. Yes, that is another name I’m familiar with.
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