Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on July 14th 2003 by nobu.
This tune has been added to 48 tunebooks.
Also known as De Danann's, Did You Wash Your Father's Shirt, Spailpin Fanach, Tom, Tom's, The West Cork.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Tom Sullivan's
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmix
D/E/F/G/ AB | cA AG | Ad d^c | d3e |
fd ed | cA AB | cA GE | D4:|
fd ed | cA Ad/e/ | fd ed | fg a>g |
fd ed | cA AB | cA GE | D4:|
Gan Ainm
I don't know a name of this tune.
But we play this as a first tune of Britches full of Stitches Set.
# Posted on July 14th 2003 by nobu
But we play this as a first tune of Britches full of Stitches Set.
# Posted on July 14th 2003 by nobu
Our Britch set
Gan Ainm(this tune) - Mrs. Crowley's - Britches full of Stitches
# Posted on July 14th 2003 by nobu
Recording
To be found on Alan Kelly's "Out of the Blue", by the name of Tom Sullivan's.
# Posted on July 15th 2003 by Henk Bos
I can't help thinking that this sounds similar to a common reel - maybe something like My Love Is In America http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/77
# Posted on July 19th 2003 by Dr. Dow
Or it might be the B-part that sounds like The Sunny Banks http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1453
# Posted on July 19th 2003 by Dr. Dow
Reel Version of this tune
West Cork Reel(http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/715)
# Posted on November 5th 2003 by nobu
Gan Ainm/om Sullivan's
Jackie Daly also names this polka Tom Sullivan's on his cd Music from Sliabh Luachra. I paly it with C# instead of the B.
# Posted on January 1st 2005 by ʎɹoʇısuɐɹʇ
Gan Ainm/Tom Sullivan's
Wow! Time to wake up and down another coffee.
# Posted on January 1st 2005 by ʎɹoʇısuɐɹʇ
Tom Sullivan's
I played this last night leading a set followed by the two Paddy's submitted by Dow that I learned from the Josephine Marsh cd. Played very briskly and lots of fun especially when accompanied by a bodhraner who repeatedly tossed his tipper in the air like a majorette but who hadn't quite organized the other half of the action. Really.
# Posted on January 1st 2005 by ʎɹoʇısuɐɹʇ
Almost 2 years later and I've remembered which reel this reminded me of: Marry While You're Young http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/201.
# Posted on May 18th 2005 by Dr. Dow
"Tom Sullivan's Polka"
K: G Major
|: G>A |
Bc de | fd dc | dg gf | g2 ga |
bg ag | fd d>e | fd c/B/A | G2 :|
| g>a |
b2 ag | fd d/e/g/a/ | bc'/b/ af | g2 g>a |
bc'/b/ ag | fd d>e |fd cA | G2 d/e/g/a/ |
bg a>g | fd g>a | bg ab | c'2 ba |
b2 ag | f2 d>g | f/e/d cA | G2 ||
& simpler with more choice of key ~
K: D Mixolydian ~ or ~ D Major
|: DE |
FG AB | cA AG | Ad d^c | d2- de |
fd ed | cA Ad | c/B/A GE | D2 :|
|: Ag |
fd ed | cA Ag | fd d/e/f | g2 ag |
fd ed | cA- Ad | c>A GE | D2 :|
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by ceolachan
We play this followed by Foxhunters slip jig - they go well
# Posted on March 13th 2006 by domnull
Tom Sullivan - Does this name ring any bells?
In 1984, on a trip with companions from England, I and they went into a pub in the middle of nowhere in County Louth. We were told it was "Irish night", so we awaited events. An old man came in with a 3-row button accordion and a younger man with him beat time on a tambourine. The button box playing was simply the most amazing I'd ever heard (he was using the full bass set of buttons he had). I was told he was called Tom Sullivan, and he must have been at least locally well known, but I've never heard any more about him.
- Anyone out there come across him?
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by nicholas
Tom and Dan
could Dan sullivan be in any way connected to this Tom Sullivan (both happen to share the same family name and both of there names apeare in polkas).
perhaps it is just a coinsidence. Anyway, I'd be glad to know.
# Posted on May 16th 2007 by Osher