This reel was the first tune ever written by Shetland fiddler Samuel Ian Rothmar Burns, probably around 1960. Spootiskerry is the name of a farm in the author's family. In his tunebook, also called Spootiskerry, he says "Spootiskerry [is] the croft belonging to my late grand aunts, Bella and Joan Nicolson, situated between the village of Sullom, and the new town of Brae." A spoot is a razor clam, one of the edible "ebb meats" taken from the shore at low tide, named because it "spoots" (or spouts) when you disturb it. A skerry is a group of rocks which are only sometimes visible at low tide.
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: | G | GD7 | GEm | Am7D7 | |
GD7/A | G/BEm | Am7D7 | GCG | : | |
Em | G7C | GEm | AmD7 | ||
Em | G7C | G/DD | GCG | ||
Em | G7C | GEm | AmD7 | ||
CA | G/BEm | Am7D7 | G |