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Exile's Jig​/​R​é​el de Nez Piqu​é​/​I'll Twine Mid the Ringlets. (

from Signature by IONA

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This arrangement opens with The Exile's Jig, an Irish slip jig (9/8 time signature) then takes a trans-Atlantic segué to Louisiana and Réel de Nez Piqué, a Cajun tune penned by Michael Doucet of Beausoleil. Why a Cajun tune? When the Breton-based French from Acadia (now Nova Scotia) were driven out by the British, many of them migrated southwards, all the way to Louisiana where "Acadians" became "Cajuns". We continue with a Victorian parlor song, I'll Twine Mid the Ringlets, published in 1860 with music by Joseph Philbrick Webster and lyrics by Maud Irving. It was later adapted to the bluegrass tradition to become "Wildwood Flower" (among other derivative names) made popular by the Carter Family in 1928.<br

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I will twine mid the ringlets of my raven black hair
The roses so red and the lilies so fair,
The myrtle so bright with its emerald hue,
The pale amaranthus and violets so blue.

I will sing and I'll dance, my laugh shall be gay.
I'll cease this wild weeping, drive sorrow away.
Though my heart is breaking, he never shall know
His name made me tremble, my pale cheeks to glow.

I'll think of him never, I'll be wildly gay.
I'll charm every heart, the crowd I will sway.
I'll live yet to see him regret the dark hour
That he won, then neglected, his pale wildwood flower.

He told me he loved me and promised to love
Through ill and misfortune all others above.
Another has won him! Ah, misery to tell,
He left me in silence, no words of farewell.

He taught me to love him and called me his flower
That blossomed for hum all the brighter each hour.
But I woke from my dreaming: my idol was clay.
My visions of love have all faded away.
Lyrics by Maud Irving, 1860.

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from Signature, released December 1, 2017

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IONA has been taking its unique brand of traditional Celtic music to festivals, arts centers, schools & house concerts all over North America and Europe since 1986, blending music from the various Celtic traditions with stories and a little humor - Barbara Ryan (vocals, bouzouki, bodhran), Bernard Argent (flute, doumbek), Chuck Lawhorn (bass), Jim Queen (fiddle, banjo) & Kathleen Larrick (dance). ... more

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