Northern Lass/Metal Man
Two of my favourite tunes. A slow air which I heard played by Kitsyke Will many years ago, drifting over the field at the Towersey Village Festival, and in fact haven't heard anyone else play it since. The second tune is a 6/4 tune written by Robin Dransfield which I first heard played by Barry Dransfield on his Bowin' And Scrapin' LP. I'm playing it in the key of C here. The Metal Man referred to is a 12 foot high, seven ton, iron lighthouse off the coast of County Cork, Ireland, at Rosses Point in Sligo Harbour. As well as the light there is large figure shaped and painted as a Royal Navy Petty Officer, and pointing to safe deeper water.