Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on April 9th 2010 by 52Paddy.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as John Clifford's, Johnny Leary's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Johnny O'Leary's
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|:d>c da | B3 d | c/B/A/B/ c/d/e | A2 FA |B/c/d ef |
g3 e |[1 fe fd | a2 AB/c/ :|[2 fe af | d2 AB/c/ ||
|: d/c/d/e/ f/e/d/B/ | Af f2 | Be eB | Ad dB/c/ |
d/c/d/e/ f/e/d/B/ | Af f2 | Be ef | d2 d2 :|
From Denis Liddy
Denis Liddy recorded this tune as a solo track on "Waifs and Strays". The liner notes say he got it from a recording of the band "Any Old Time". I've searched for it here but didn't find it. Unfortunately, the title is a very generic one.
Despite that, it is a very nice tune to play. I prefer it at a steady pace with very little ornamentation of variation (I'm playing it on whistle at the moment).
I think I've got my ABCs correct. There are some minute details which I would have liked to add. Denis holds some notes and followed them with a succession of staccato triplets but I don't know how to put it into ABC. And, to be honest, I don't know how to explain the little variations in writing, so just listen to the recording if you have it.
Hope you enjoy this one
Paddy
# Posted on April 9th 2010 by 52Paddy
Crossing by Any Old Time
This is the album containing Johnny O'Leary's polkas. May there be as many as stars in the sky.
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2535
Track 4 is listed as Johnny O'Leary's Polkas. According to the liner notes, the first is listed as Julia Clifford's and the second fulfills the polka tradition by not having a name.
# Posted on April 11th 2010 by Trice
"John Clifford's Polka" ~ I said I'd be back!
I was sure I had at least one other name for this than 'gan ainm'. Sorry I'm late returning. Here's another source for a transcription, more of the good works of Mr. Moylan ~
"Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra:
Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border"
edited by Terry Moylan
The Lilliput Press, 1994
ISBN: 1-874675-42-2
Pages 191 - 192, tune #339: "John Clifford's" (2)
There are no specific notes for this except to give the tempo of the recording transcribed from as 1/4 = 146 bpm
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by ceolachan
"John Clifford's Polka" ~ another take and possibilities
Aside from playing it in G, A or C ~ here it is in the key already given with some other ways with it. Frankly, I love it down low... The transcription just mentioned, of Johnny O'Leary, is also in D.
X: 2
T: John Clifford's
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|: B/c/ |\
d>c df | B3 B | c/B/A/B/ ce | A3 A |
B/c/d ef | g3 f/g/ |[1 fe fd | a3 :|[2 fe ac | d3 ||
|: A/4B/4c/ |\
dA/d/ f/e/d/B/ | Af fe/f/ | Be e^d/e/ | Ad dA |
dc/d/ f/e/d/B/ | Af fe/f/ | Be ec | d3 :|
& just as a taster ~
K: Gmaj
|: D |\
G>F GB | E2 E2 | F/E/D/E/ FA | D2 D2 |
E/F/G AB | c2 c2 |[1 BA BG | d2 d :|[2 BA dF | G3 ||
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by ceolachan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x67j_aWFqxk
# Posted on February 9th 2011 by Theirlandais