X: 1 T:Watch Where You Tread T:Duck-shit Polka M:C L:1/8 Q:225 C:by John Barry of Lewes S:Christopher George Partington tradtunes 2005-3-11 % N:Christopher writes: N: For those of you who do not know John and his fiddle and melodeon N: playing, (and for those who do), this seems a good time to drop N: into the Tradtune pond a tune that he wrote for a friend. He was N: good enough to send me a recording of his playing of it, and he is N: happy for it to be used subject to the usual copyright conditions. N: Actually I put that bit in as he's not worried by copyright issues N: "unless the Disney Corporation try to use it". N: N: John has a friend whose house has an open door onto the attached N: smallholding. The feathered captives have free access to the house N: and often use it for incubation and hatching purposes. One day N: when arriving for a practice he met the lodger who was just N: leaving. "When you go in, watch where you tread" said the lodger, N: hence one of the names of the tune. There were ducks in the living N: room and duck poo on the floor and he "had to do a polka/jig to N: avoid it", hence the other name. The practice continued, with John N: playing his fiddle with a cockerel perched on his shoulder, "-big N: bugger with plus-fours". Carry these images with you as you N: contemplate the rhythm. % O:England A:Sussex Z:Chris Partington K:D ||:F2G2|A2BA F2A2|G2AG E2G2|F2D2 AFD2|B4 B4|! A2BA F2A2|G2AG E2G2|F2D2 ^C2E2|D4:|! B2c2|(d3e/d/) B2G2|d2D2 G2B2|(d3e/d/) c2B2|A4 F2G2|! A2BA F2D2|A2A,2 D2F2|A2BA G2F2|E4 B2c2|! (d3e/d/) B2G2|d2D2 G2B2|(d3e/d/) c2B2|A4 F2G2|! A2BA F2A2|G2AG E2G2|F2D2 ^C2E2|D4|]