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Two Grumpy Old Men
With Kevin our melodeon player busy at work, fiddle player Robin and myself recorded some more sets of tunes this week.
Set 27 consists of three Manx tunes:
1. Wandescope Traditional
2. Yn Juree (The Stranger) Philip Leighton Stowell
3. Kiark Catreeney Marroo (Catherine's hen is dead) Traditional
Two Grumpy Old Men
With Kevin our melodeon player busy at work, fiddle player Robin and myself recorded some more sets of tunes this week.
Set 27 consists of three Manx tunes:
1. Wandescope Traditional
2. Yn Juree (The Stranger) Philip Leighton Stowell
3. Kiark Catreeney Marroo (Catherine's hen is dead) Traditional









![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)
