Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on January 31st 2010 by gilles.tabary.
This tune has been added to 20 tunebooks.
Also known as Piper In The Cave, The Piper In The Cave March, The Piper's Cave.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Piper In The Cave, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
e3g f2df | e2A2 A3e | edcB ABcd | ~e2ef edBd |
[A3e3]g (3fgf df | e2A2 A3e | dcBA GABc | (3ded dB c2 d2 |
e3g f2df | e2A2 A3e | edcB ABcd | e2 ~e2 e2 fg |
agfa gfeg | (3fgf df e3d | dcBA GABc| (3ded dB c2(3BcB ||
A2a2 ^c2a2 | e2a2 a4 | e2ae AB^cd | e2~e2 ed^cB |
A2a2 ^c2a2 | e2a2 a4 | dcBA GABc | d3B c2(3BcB |
A2a2 ^c2a2 | e2a2 a4 | e2ae AB^cd | e2~e2 e2fg |
agfa gfeg | (3fgf df e3d | dcBA GABc | (3ded dB c2d2 ||
e2A2 (3fgf dB | e2A2 ABcd | ~e2ef edBd | e3e edBd |
(3efe A2 (3fgf df | e2A2 ABce | d3e dBGB | (3deddB c2d2 |
e2A2 (3fgf dB | e2A2 ABcd | ~e2ef edBd | e3e ~e2fg |
agfa gfeg | (3fgf df e3d | dcBA GABc | (3ded dB c2d2 ||
The piper in the cave
I heard this one is played as a march. Seams also known as Piper's Cave.
It is taken from album "Stay Another While" by Paul O'Shaughnessy and Frankie Lane, track 2. http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display.php/2072
John Doherty, Co. Donegal used to play it and reportedly said that it was about a piper who attempted to make an underground journey through the caves twixt Maghera and Glencolmcille . He said that it was the last tune the piper was heard to play before he et by some wild beast ( as reported by Pádraig September 18th 2004 ).
Quite different story from celticrichie (September 18th 2004) :
"(...) I have been told that The Pipers Cave refers not to some romantic setting, but to a bar somewhere in North Africa during WW2. A better setting by far you might say."
Nice one anyway.
# Posted on January 31st 2010 by gilles.tabary
What you posted is in A dorian, not G major. Paul O'Shaughnessy plays it in B though...
# Posted on December 12th 2010 by Othannen