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The Bus Ride

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on September 26th 2001 by Jonathan.

This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.

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X: 1
T: Bus Ride, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
fg | afdA GBed | cAag fdAF | DFAD GBd^G | Acec gcfg |!
afdA GBed | cAag fdAF | DFAF GBed | (3cBA(3gfed2 :|!
|: ef | geBG~E3F | ~G3A Bcdc | ~B3c~d3e | ~f3g afga |!
(3b=c'b(3agfe2eB | ~G3A Bed=c | ~B3c dcdf | gfede2 :|

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The Bus Ride sheetmusic
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I wrote this!

This is one of my tunes. Let me know what you think. I'll soon be publishing a collection of my originals. In the spirit of traditional music, this tune is public domain, and copyright free!

Jonathan

# Posted on September 26th 2001 by Jonathan

Oops - wrong title!

Me again! When I posted this tune, I originally gave it the wrong title, which was "The Happy Piper". Oh well, not to worry!

Jonathan

# Posted on September 26th 2001 by Jonathan

The Bus Ride

I like it. It has a nice balance between traditional and modern, which doesn't appear forced or calculated. I'll stop before your head swells beyond its elastic limit.

It feels more like a hornpipe than a reel to me, with all the triplet passages and the predominance of arpeggios.

# Posted on September 28th 2001 by CreadurMawnOrganig

sounds like a bus journey between Armagh and Galway, like, lots o twists and turns: first it's jolly and picturesque but soon the bus blues catches up on you and there’s only one hope left for you: your t Bus Stop http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1810 ! And when you finally get off you swear you’ll never take that d** bus on that d** route, but of course you do!

# Posted on May 22nd 2010 by birlibirdie

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