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Jigs: The Bride’s Favourite / Tansey’s Fancy

[trad. arr. Steeleye Span]

Peter Knight, fiddles, mandolins, tenor banjo;
Rick Kemp, bass;
Bob Johnson, guitar;
Tim Hart, spoons.

Two jigs recorded by Steeleye Span for the album Below the Salt. The album’s sleeve notes commented:

So there we was sitting in this dressing room when in comes this guy with glasses and he says, “Oim afraid youse got de wrong toitles for de toons,” and the he goes and rattles off a whole load of Garlic what we couldn’t make out, so we gets the roadies to see him off. Handy things roadies.