We were talking about this tune at the last session, so I thought I’d post the woman herself playing it. Liz Carroll, and three of her own compositions:
Month: May 2018
Bill Harte’s Jig
Aka “The Superman Theme Song.”
Well, that’s what I always think of, and my coworkers have also asked me if that’s what I was humming when I was actually humming Bill Harte’s. It’s one of those jigs that I think comes from the piping tradition, ripe with possibilities for crazy variations and ornamentation. I would suggest playing this slowly, trying something different each time through, to try to liven up the repetitiveness.
Click HERE for some discussion on the tune.
Here are a couple good versions I found on the tube: