Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
I have often been asked to show some videos of me playing along with friends, so last Monday evening at our weekly practice session, along with fiddler, Robin and melodeon player, Kevin, the three of us being known collectively as "The Three Grumpy Old Men", I videoed ten sets of tunes from our repertoire. We perform together from time to time at local care homes and at "Sight Matters" (formerly: Manx Blind Welfare) as well as playing along with others on a Friday evening at the George Hotel in Castletown.
Set 5::
Midnight on the Water (American Waltz)
Ashokan Farewell (Jay Unger)
I have often been asked to show some videos of me playing along with friends, so last Monday evening at our weekly practice session, along with fiddler, Robin and melodeon player, Kevin, the three of us being known collectively as "The Three Grumpy Old Men", I videoed ten sets of tunes from our repertoire. We perform together from time to time at local care homes and at "Sight Matters" (formerly: Manx Blind Welfare) as well as playing along with others on a Friday evening at the George Hotel in Castletown.
Set 5::
Midnight on the Water (American Waltz)
Ashokan Farewell (Jay Unger)




![Guitar and B Harmonica Mighty Quinn (Including lyrics and chords)
Note: Capo at 4th fret, so I am really playing and singing in the key of B.
The Mighty Quinn was the first song I performed yesterday at our monthly sing-around at the sheltered accommodation at which I live.
The following notes come from Wikipedia:
Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) is a folk-rock song written and first recorded by Bob Dylan in 1967 during The Basement Tapes sessions. The songs first release was in January 1968 as Mighty Quinn in a version by the British band Manfred Mann, which became a great success. It has been recorded by a number of performers, often under the Mighty Quinn title.
The subject of the song is the arrival of Quinn (an Eskimo), who prefers a more relaxed lifestyle (jumping queues and making haste just aint my cup of meat) and refuses hard work (Just tell me where to put em and Ill tell you who to call), but brings joy to the people.[original research?]
Dylan is widely believed to have derived the title character from actor Anthony Quinns role as an Eskimo in the 1960 movie The Savage Innocents. Dylan has also been quoted as saying that the song was nothing more than a simple nursery rhyme. A 2004 Chicago Tribune article[6] said the song was named after Gordon Quinn, co-founder of Kartemquin Films, who had given Dylan and Howard Alk uncredited editing assistance on Eat the Document (1966). Guitar and B Harmonica Mighty Quinn (Including lyrics and chords)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rwy8vuApOmw/mqdefault.jpg)





