THE JIMMIES What We Do

THE JIMMIES – What We Do

The Jimmies’ repertoire is unusually broad, extending from traditional Celtic Music, to Sixties and Seventies rock and Kiwi pop. The Jimmies can deliver an evening of Irish or Scottish music and dances, a full night of rock and roll, or combine Celtic music and dances with brackets of Rock and Roll. That sort of combination has proved to be highly popular. It is the Jimmies’ ability to mix and match such a diverse range of music styles that sets them apart from other bands.

Celtic song list

Irish Songs Scottish Songs I’ll Tell Me Ma Mairi’s Wedding Aisling/Wind that Shakes the Barley Nancy Whisky Here’s to You Ballad of St Anne’s Reel Johnny I Hardly Knew You Wild Mountain Thyme Blarney Roses Flower of Scotland Star of the County Down Morag Fair (Lewis Bridal Song) Irish Rover Jock Stewart Muirsheen Durkin/Off to California Ye Jacobites Jolly Beggar/Wise Maid Peggy Gordon Whiskey in the Jar Maggie Lauder Leaving of Liverpool Farewell to Nova Scotia Patrick was a Gentleman Donald MacGillivray P Stands for Paddy Dirty Old Town Dancing to the Ceili Band Green Grow the Rushes Rocky Road to Dublin No Tie-ups Ride On Band of Shearers All for Me Grog/Irish Washerwoman Brave Boys Fields of Athenry Both Sides the Tweed Another Irish Rover Heart and Soul Maggie This for That Hidden Love Donald (Where’s your Troosers) McIlhatton/Rakish Paddy Fairy Tale of New York Danny Boy Eileen Og Nancy Spain The Voyage Black Velvet Band/Wild Rover Raglan Road Black Waterside Carrickfergus Mrs McGrath Song for Ireland The Spanish Lady Instrumental Music: We have a large selection of Irish and Scottish tunes, arranged in sets, suitable for dancing or listening - Jigs, Reels, Polkas, Waltzes, Airs, etc.

Our speciality is playing for Scottish and Irish dances and barn dances. We teach the dances and call them. So, at a Scottish Ceilidh, you will be able to dance classics like the Dashing White Sergeant, the Gay Gordons, The Eightsome Reel, St Bernards’s Waltz and Strip the Willow. Irish Ceili dances include The Waves of Tory, Siege of Ennis, Walls of Limerick and The Haymakers. Our Barn Dance repertoire includes a wide range of circle, line and square dances.

We also do Country and New Zealand and Australian folk and acoustic songs.

The Jimmies also play Rock and Roll; mainly Sixties and Seventies standards and Kiwi songs. (Song list follows):

Pop and Rock (alphabetical) Anchor Me (Mutton Birds) Jean Genie (David Bowie) All My Loving (Beatles) Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry) Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater) Jumping Jack Flash (Rolling Stones) Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) Loyal (Dave Dobbyn) Black Magic Woman (Santana) Memphis Tennessee (Chuck Berry) Blue Lady (Hello Sailor) Midnight Hour (Wilson Pickett) Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison) Moondance (Van Morrison) Bright Side of the Road (Van Morrison) Mother’s Little Helper (Rolling Stones) China Girl (David Bowie) My Girl (Stevie Wonder) Come on Eileen (Dexy’s Midnight Nature (Fourmyula) Runners) Nowhere Man (Beatles) Dominion Road (Mutton Birds) Oliver’s Army (Elvis Costello) Don’t Dream It’s Over (Crowded House) Outlook for Thursday (DD Smash) Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (The Paint It Black (Rolling Stones) Animals) Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly) Don’t Start Me Talking (Paul Kelly) River Deep, Mountain High (Ike and Tina Eagle Rock (Daddy Cool) Turner) Eight Days A Week (Beatles) Route 66 Father and Son (Cat Stevens) Runaway (Del Shannon) First We Take Manhattan (Leonard She’s Not There (Santana) Cohen) Six Months in a Leaky Boat (Split Enz) Flowers on the Wall (Statler Brothers) SOS (Abba) Friday on My Mind (Easy Beats) Spicks and Specks (Beegees) Get Back (Beatles) The Letter (Joe Cocker) Gloria (Van Morrison) Things We Said Today (Beatles) Going Back (Carol King) Time Warp ((Rocky Horror Show) Going Home (Mark Knopfler) Tub Thumping (Chumbawamba) Going Up the Country (Canned Heat) Turn, Turn, Turn (The Byrds) Honky Tonk Woman (Rolling Stones) Under the Boardwalk (The Drifters) I Fought the Law (The Clash) Walk in the Room (Jackie De I’m Gonna Be 500 Miles (The Shannon|/Searchers) Proclaimers) Werewolves of |London (Warren Zevon) It’s All Over Now (Rolling Stones) We’ve Got to Get Out of This Place (The Animals) Wild World (Cat Stevens) With a Little |Help From My Friends (Joe Cocker) You Really Got Me (The Kinks)