Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on December 6th 2003 by Jeremy.
This tune has been added to 125 tunebooks.
Also known as O' Neill's March, O'Neill's Cavalcade, O'Neill's Cavalry, O'Neill's Cavalry March.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: O'Neill's March
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Emin
|:Bg fa|eg f/e/d/B/|eg fa|eg f/e/d:|
|:ee f/e/d/B/|ee f/e/d/B/:|
|:A>B G>B|Ae d/B/A|A>B G>B|Ae z2:|
O'Neill's
This is the tune that was made (in)famous by Horslips.
I've shown a couple of variations here: the first two bars and the second two bars show basically the same thing except for the starting note. Personally, I like starting it on B but E fits equally well.
Likewise, in the last part, the second part shows where you can put your Horslips-style dramatic pauses. If you don't want anything so melodramatic, just repeat the first two bars of the third part four times.
This tune is kind of hokey but it *is* fun to play. Especially at a ludicrously fast pace. Then it's kind of like an Irish version of dueling banjos.
# Posted on December 6th 2003 by Jeremy
O'Neill's
I know this tune with a "D" and "E" part. I will try to figure out the abc and post it when I have a chance. It was fun seeing the tune here and wierd that half the tune I know is missing. The added parts lend themselves well to mandolin ornamentation.
~Autumn
# Posted on December 12th 2003 by autumn
O'Neill's Cavalcade
Here is the version I have which includes the parts D & E referred to above. These are actually a separate tune, I think, called The Green Cockade but since they are 'always' played together, I suppose most people take them as one.
K:G
B2g2 f2a2 |e2g2 gfed |B2g2 f2a2 |e2g2 gfed :|e2de fedB |e2e2 fedB |e2de fedB |e2e2 fedB |:A3B G3B |A2e2 edBG |A3B G3B |1A2e2 edBG :|2A2e2 edBA ::e2A2 A2Bd |eged B2d2 |e2A2 AcBA |G2GA BGBd |e2A2 A2Bd |
eged B2d2 |edef g2B2 |A4 A4 ::e2a2 a2ga |b2ba g2gf |edBd g2ge |dcBA GABG |e2a2 a2ga |b2ba g2ge |d2B2 g2B2 |A4 A4 :|
# Posted on March 23rd 2005 by the wounded hussar
Yup, it's a separate tune http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1113.
They're not always played together.
# Posted on June 2nd 2007 by Dr. Dow
Damn XXXXX are always slamming tunes together like that... Grrrr...
# Posted on June 2nd 2007 by ceolachan
For the love of marches
I had to learn this one as I am an O'Neill! I then put it together with the march Lord Mayo. I play the last part of O'Neills three times as a build up into Lord Mayo and then when I reach the high G of part B I go straight back into O'Neills for a couple more times. I tend to just fade it and end wherever feels good! I do love a good march on the fiddle! This is a strange one though, very short! What do other peolpe do with it?
# Posted on March 10th 2008 by The Commoners
I learnt this tune O'Neill's March long before Horslips and the Jackie's Army crowd got hold of it. We always played it along with Tralee Gaol and called the whole shebang O'Neills Cavalcade.
# Posted on January 13th 2009 by Free Reed
O'Neills March/Cavalcade?
Anybody know much about this tune how old it is etc?
Or any of its history?
Leaving aside Horslips and Jack Charlton!
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2236
Cheers
# Posted on August 12th 2011 by Kess
Re: O'Neills March/Cavalcade?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odkpp_Zxq4w
Excuse the Mel Gibson Clips.
# Posted on August 12th 2011 by Kess
Re: O'Neills March/Cavalcade?
John Doonan, All-Ireland piccolo player from Hebburn, believed that it belongs to the Ulster clan march tradition. He plays it on the 5th Irish Folk Festival LP (Intercord - INT 180.046 - 1978).
# Posted on August 12th 2011 by Dragut Reis