Cville Jams & Music Tune Lists

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Tune lists from the various open jams in Charlottesville.
Almost all of these tunes can be found in the major fakebooks for the genre. These tune lists are only for guidence; none of the Charlottesville jams have session police that require us to play only tunes on the lists. As with any living tradition, the tune lists change and evolve over time, so these are just the tune lists that are being circulated as of July 2006. And as with any great jamming tradition, all of the Charlottesville jams encourage jammers to introduce new tunes into the repetoires. So, learn a tune at a festival or music camp and teach it to us at the next jam. In the meantime, you can start here.

• IRISH SESSION
• OLD-TIME
• BLUEGRASS
• JAZZ

More tune lists? Send them to me, preferably as a Word file. Olivia:

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 IRISH SESSION TUNE LISTS

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Shebeen Irish Sessions

• Celtic / Irish / Scottish / Cape Breton / French Canadian
• This tunelist is organized by rhythm, since most of the tunes are dance tunes. The key is indicated where known. Many more tunes will be added to this list as time goes on.
• Most of these tunes can be found in the Fiddler's Fakebook
  

HORNPIPES
Boys of Blue Hill
Harvest Home Hornpipe

JIGS
A Gentleman’s Heart to the Ladies
Athol's Highlander
Cliffs of Mohar (A)
Colipe House
Connaught Man’s Rambles (D)
Fair Jenny’s
Irish Washerwoman (G)
Katy’s Rambles (b flat)
Kesh Jig (G)
Maggie Brown’s Favorite (G)
Mist on the Mountain (A)
Morrison's (Em)
Mug of Brown Ale (The Clare Jig)
My Darling Asleep (D)
Pipe on the Hob (G)
Rakes of Kildaire (G)
Sean Ryan's Jigs
Swallow Tail Jig (Em)
Swedish Jig (D)
Ten Penny Bit (A-Dorian)
The Blarney Pilgrim (G)
Willie Coleman’s (M. Molloy) (G)

POLKAS
Britches full of Stitches
Polka Set
Bill Sullivan’s

REELS
Galway Reel (D)
Arkansas Traveler (D)
Banish Misfortune (G)
Banshee
Blind Mary
Boys of Blue Hill (D)
Brenda Stubert
Cliffs of Mohar (A)
Cooley's Reel
Cup of Tea (D)
Dick Gossip (D)
Dinkey’s
Dinny's O'Brien
Drowsy Maggie (Em)
Farewell to Erin (A)
Fermoy Lasses
Flowers of Edinburg (G)
Gary Owen (G)
Golden Keyboard (G)
Gravel Walk (A)
Harvest Home Hornpipe (D)
Haste to the Wedding (A)
Julia Delaney (Dm)
Maid Behind the Bar
Marie (pronounced Mair's) Wedding
Mason's Apron (A)
Mc Mahon's (G)
Merrily Kissed the Quaker's Wife
Merry Blacksmith (D)
Miss McCleod’s
Miss McCleod's (Step High Ladies)
Mountain Road
Off to California
Old Grey Cat
O'Sullivan's March (G)
Over the Moor to Maggie’s
Pigeon on the Gate
Pigeon on the Gate (G)
Prarie Dog on the Pratie
Rakes of Mallow (G)
Reconciliation (A)
Red Hair Boy (A)
Rights of Man (Em)
Road to Lisdoonvarna (Em)
Sally Garden (G Maj)
Scolly’s
Scottish Anthem or Scotland the Brave (D)
Ships are Sailing (Em, D, C)
Silver Spear (D)
Sligo Maid
Smash The Windows
Soldier's Joy (D)
St Ann's Reel (D)
Star of Munster (A, G, Am)
Staten Island
Stool of Repentance Jig
Swallowtail
Swinging on the Gate (D)
Tam Lin (Dm, B flat, C, Am, F, G)
Temperance Reel (G)
The Congress
The Donegal Reel (D)
Whiskey Before Breakfast (D)

SLIDES
Dennis Murphy

SLIP JIGS
A Fig for a Kiss
Another Jig Will Do
Butterfly (Em)
Foxhunter's Reel (G)
Kid on the Mountain
Rocky Road to Dublin

SONGS
Danny Boy
Fields of Athemn
Irish Rover
She Moved Through the Fair
You Take the High Road

WALTZES / AIRS
Angus on the Turnpike
Ashokan Fairwell (D, G)
Blind Mary
Captain O' Kane's
Crested Chicken
Danny Boy
Down By the Sally Gardens
Far Away
If Ever You Were Mine
Inishere
Lover's
Mouth of the Tobique Reel
Nancy’s Waltz
Red Crow
Sheebeg and Sheemore (Â≤ D)
Southwind
Star of the County Down (A and D)

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OLD-TIME TUNE LISTS

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Songs from the Old-Time Jams

• Most of these tunes can be found in the Fiddler's Fakebook, the Portland Collection, or the Waltz Books Volumes I, II, & III. Lots of them are used in bluegrass, too. This list is organized by song key because the banjo players are in control of things (at least they like to think so) and they have to retune their instruments whenever the key changes. To be polite, we play all the songs we can think of in a given key before making the banjo players retune.
• I could also present a list organized by fiddle tuning - standard or cross tuning, but I don't have such a list to post. Maybe someone could send me one... A list of crooked tunes would be fun, too.
• Old-time tunes are generally traditional, but some are fairly new. If you are entering a fiddle/banjo/etc contest with strict rules (like at Galax), be sure to check on the copywrite status of your choices.
  

A Tunes:
Bear Creek Hop
Big John McNeill
Bill Cheatham
Black Mountain Rag
Blind Steer in a Mudhole
Boatman
Boil Them Cabbage Down
Booth Shot Lincoln
Breaking Up Christmas
Brilliancy
Bull at the Wagon
Cajun Fiddle
Camp Chase
Carroll County Blues
Cherokee Shuffle
Chinkapin Hunting
Coming Down From Denver
Cotten Eyed Joe
Cripple Creek
Devil's Dream
Double File
Draggin' the Bow
Drunken Billy Goat
Drunken Hiccups
Durham's Reel
Dusty Miller
Falls of Richmond
Fine Times at Our House
Fire on the Mountain
Fireman's Reel
Garfield
George Booker
Georgia Railroad
Going Down the River
Granny Will Your Dog Bite?
Great Big Taters in Sandy Land
Greenback Dolly-O
Grey Eagle
Hangman
Hog Eye
Ida Red
Jenny on the Railroad
Jimmy Johnson
John Brown's Dream
Joys of Quebec
Kansas City Reel
Last of Callahan
Lazy Kate
Lime Rock
Little Billy Wilson
Little Liza Jane
Little Rabbit
Lost Child
Maiden's Prayer
Maple Leaf Rag
Money Musk
Natchez Under the Hill
Old Joe Clark
Old Mother Flanagan
Ookpik Waltz
Sally Goodin'
Salt River
Sandy Boys
Sheep Shell Corn
Shortnin' Bread
Sourwood Mountain
Stoney Fork
Sugar in the Gourd
Three Forks of Cheat
Three Thin Dimes
Tom and Jerry
Up Jumped the Devil
Wake Up Susan
Wednesday Night Waltz
Whitesburg
Wild Rose of the Mountain
Wish I Had My Time Again

A Modal Tunes:
Abe's Retreat
Betty Liken
Boatin' Up Sandy
Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Moutains
Campbell's Farewell to Red Gap
Cattle in the Cane
Cluck Old Hen
Cold Frosty Morning
Colonel Crockett
Done Gone
Ducks on the Pond
Elzic's Farewell
Emily's Reel
Growling Old Man and Woman
Hobart's Transformation
June Apple
Kitchen Girl
Lady of the Lake II
Lonesome John
Paddy on the Turnpike
Pretty Little Dog
Santa Anna's Retreat
Say Old Man Can You Play the Fiddle
Shaking Down the Acorns
Sleep Soond Ida Moarnin'
Tater Patch
Texas
The Route
The Twenty Eighth of January
Twin Sisters
Two Dollar Bill
Yearlings in the Canebrake
Yew Piney Mountain

C Tunes:
Back Up and Push
Beaumont Rag
Billy in the Lowground
Birdie
Black Velvet Waltz
Catlettsburg
Chinese Breakdown
Cotton Patch Rag
East Tennessee Blues
Flat Footed Henry
Four Cent Cotton
Fourteen Days in Georgia
Hard Times Come Again No More
Hell Broke Loose in Georgia
I Don't Love Nobody
Jack of Diamonds
Katy Did
Marching Through Georgia
New Money
Old Joe
Paddy Won't You Drink Some Cider
Pike's Peak
Red River Waltz
Rio Grande
Saturday Night Breakdown
Shelvin Rock
Sleeping Lulu
Stone's Rag
Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase
Texas Gales
Threshing Tune
Wagoner
 
D Tunes:
Angeline the Baker
Arkansas Traveler
Arthur Berry
Back Step Cindy
Black Eyed Susan
Blind Man
Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine
Bonaparte's Retreat
Briarpicker Brown
Charleston Girls
Chicken Reel
Cider Mill
Chuck in the Bush
Cindy
Cowboy's Dream
Cricket on the Hearth
Devil in the Woodpile
Dixie
Dry and Dusty
Dubuque
Ducks on the Millpond
Dundee Hornpipe
Durang's Hornpipe
Eighth of January
Fisher's Hornpipe
Folding Down the Sheets
Forked Deer
Fortune
Gaspe Reel
Grasshopper Sitting On a Sweet Potato Vine
Hawks and Eagles
Hell Among the Yearlings
Hickman County
Homesteader's Reel
Hopping John
Hull's Victory
Johnny Don't Come Home Drunk
Julianne Johnson
Julie Girl
Jump Jim Crow
Keep the Ark a Movin'
Lady of the Lake
Lady's Waist Ribbon
Lebanon
Lee Highway Blues
Liberty
Lost Indian
Martha Campbell
Midnight on the Water
Mississippi Sawyer
Morpeth Rant
Moses Hoe the Corn
Natchez
New Five Cents
Old Jake Gillie
Old Molly Hare
Old Sledge
Old Zip Coon
Opera Reel
Over the Waterfall
Paddy on the Railroad
Petronella
Pig Ankle Rag
Possum Up a Gum Stump
Quince Dillon's High "D"
Ragtime Annie
Red River Jig
Richmond Cotillion
Rickett's Hornpipe
Rochester Schottische
Rock the Cradle Joe
Rocky Mountain Goat
Rye Straw
Saint Anne's Reel
Sally Ann
Sally Ann Johnson
Ship in the Clouds
Shoo Fly
Silver and Gold Two Step
Smith's Reel
Snowflake Reel
Snowshoes
Soldier's Joy
Soppin' the Gravy
South Missouri
Spanish Waltz
Spotted Pony
Staten Island
Sugar Hill
Sullivan's Hollow
Susannah Gal
Sweet Milk and Peaches
Texas Gallop
Texas Quickstep
The Rags
Too Young to Marry
Trude Evans
Tucker's Barn
Valley Forge
Waiting for Nancy
Walkin' in the Parlor
Ways of the World
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Wood Chopper's Reel
Yellow Rose of Texas

G Tunes:
Ash Grove
Barlow Knife
Big Eared Mule
Big Scioty
Blackberry Blossom
Black Hills Waltz
Blue Goose
Boll Weevil
Brickyard Joe
Brown Button Shoes
Brown Skin Gal
Buffalo Gals
Bully of the Town
Cabri Waltz
Casey Jones
Cedar Gap
Charles Guiteau
Cobbler's Reel
Colored Aristocracy
Crooked Stovepipe
Cuffey
Cumberland Gap
Dance All Night
Doney Gal
Ebenezer
Eddie's Reel
Flop Eared Mule
Flowers of Edinburgh
Flying Cloud Cotillion
Garfield's March
Give the Fiddler a Dram
Going to Boston
Going to Jail
Golden Slippers
Golden Wedding Reel
Greasy Coat
High Dad in the Morning
Hollow Poplar
Jaybird Died with the Whooping Cough
Jenny Lind Polka
Jimmy in the Swamp
Josie-o
Katy Hill
Leather Britches
Lee's March
Liberty Off the Corn Liquor Still
Lost Girl
Magpie
Merriweather
Methodist Preacher
Miss McLeod's Reel
Mossy Bill
Nancy Rowland
Oklahoma Redbird
Old Grey Cat
Old Torn Petticoat
Peek-A-Boo Waltz
Pineywoods Gal
Puncheon on the Floor
Redwing
Roscoe
Sail Away Ladies
Sandy River Belle
Seneca Square Dance
Shaker Ben
Shepherd's Wife
Shipping Port
Shoot the Turkey Buzzard
Skunk in the Collard Patch
Snowbird on the Ashbank
Stoney Point
Stump Tail Dog
Stumptown Dolly
Swinging on a Gate
Temperance Reel
The Girl I Left Behind Me
The Messenger
Tombigbee Waltz
Turkey in the Straw
Twinkle Little Star
Virginia Reel
Wabash Cannonball
Walk Along John
Walking in My Sleep
Waynesboro
Westphalia Waltz
Whistling Rufus
Wild Hog in the Woods
Witch of the Wake
Year of Jubilo
Young Jane

Ain’t Gonna Be Treated Thata Way
Amelia’s Waltz
Ashokan Farewell
Boothe Shot Lincoln
Corn Huskers Frolic
Country Waltz
Cripple Creek
Cumberland Gap
Green Willis (The Raw Recruit)
Horse & Buggy
I Got a Pig
Julieanne Johnson
La Valse des Jeunes Filles
Margaret’s Waltz
Mineola Rag
Over the Waterfall
Sarah Armstrong
Squirrel Hunters
Stony Point
Utpik Waltz
Whiskey Before Breakfast