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NEFA
1995.009.01 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: It's Now or Never
FL: It's now or never, my love won't wait
S: [starts midway] A verse of the song with electric organ and
vocalisations between.
NEFA
1995.009.02 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Testing her voice
S: Jane tries everything to get the voice going. Her mother
used to like Jane to play the piano. Shepheard asks for next song.
Jane would play in her mother's house. She used to sing very high,
but her mother could not keep up. She cannot get as high now. She
used to sing along with Gracie Fields. She used to yodel.
NEFA
1995.009.03 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-bob-bobbin Along
FL: When the red, red robin comes bob-bob-bobbin along
S: Just one line.
NEFA
1995.009.04-05 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: My Wee Doggie
FL: It's my wee doggie learnt me a trick
S: Tries several verses of on the organ. It is really her grandmother's
song. Tries
to find a key.
NEFA
1995.009.06 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: The Gallowa Hills
S: Tries several verses of a song then plays 6/8 march with
Shepheard on melodion. Jane diddles along with the instruments.
NEFA
1995.009.07 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: It's a Long Way to Tipperary/ Pack up your Troubles
S: Several verses. She likes the melodeon, something she can
sing to.
NEFA
1995.009.08 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Far the Gadie Rins
FL: I wish I were far the Gadie runs
S: Jane sings the chorus and diddles the verses to the accompaniment
of electric organ and Shepheard on melodion. Sings another verse.
NEFA
1995.009.09 Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: When You and I Were Young Maggie/ Tom Dooley/ It's a Long
Way to Tipperary/ Pack Up Your Troubles
S: Jane sings the choruses and diddles the verses to the accompaniment
of electric organ and Shepheard on melodion. The accordion goes
well with those tunes.
NEFA
1995.009.10 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Uncle Davie
S: Uncle Davie, and several others in Jane's family, played
the melodion. She plays the accordion, but prefers to sing with
the organ.
NEFA
1995.009.11 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Waltz
S: Electric organ. In the olden days people would have diddled
rather than an organ. Jane enjoys diddling. Few people sing the
old songs these days.
NEFA
1995.009.12 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Robin the Bold (Rosin the Beau)
S: Jane vocalises the song. Track starts with trying to find
a key. Jane's sister has an organ now and has just started to play.
[End of side A.]
NEFA
1995.009.13 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Hearing the old songs
S: Jane heard the old songs when she was young. She remembers
the tunes, but not the words so much. TM's parents used to sing.
Jane's father used to play 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', which she
diddles here, on the fiddle. Then JT and Shepheard play the tune
on electric organ and melodion [ca. 1:50]. Jane's sister has started
to play 'Robin the Bold', the only other member of her family to
take up music. She often thinks about her young days when they all
used to go to dances and the like. She and her sister often reminisce
about those days. Music helped Jane cope with her disability. Her
father used to say she was different from the other children. Paul
Heyman and Clive Powell love to come and hear her sing. She used
to make people march up and down to pipe tunes. Before her accident,
four years old, her mother would diddle to her dancing. Singing
has helped her get through life. She was never taught to play; she
has taught herself. Jane cannot read music.
NEFA
1995.009.14 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Lang Johnny More
FL: Johnny wis an angry man, and an angry man wis he
S: Electric organ, with several key changes and occasional diddling.
Stops play ca. 2:00 and sings four verses. Her mother used to sing
the whole song. TM reminds her of one. The old songs like this were
probably from her grandmother, who was Irish.
NEFA
1995.009.15 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Far the Gadie Rins/ You'll Never Miss Your Mama Till She's
Gone/ Tom Dooley
S: [JT turns her back to mike and slightly overmodulates orig.
at start.] Diddles the first tune and sings a verse or two of the
second, before singing several choruses of the last.
NEFA
1995.009.16 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Home, Home on the Range
FL: Build me a home, where the buffalo roam
S: [Orig. level lowers ca. 0:30.] Several choruses of the song
with electric organ.
NEFA
1995.009.17 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Let Me Sleep in Your Barn
FL: Let me sleep in your barn, kind mister
S: To the tune of Red River Valley. Two verses and choruses
of song. I could entertain you.
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