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The Sailor's Bonnet

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on February 27th 2002 by Mad Baloney.

This tune has been added to 420 tunebooks.

Also known as The Sailor's Bonn, Sailor's Bonnet, The Sailors Bonnet, Seller's Bonnet.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Sailor's Bonnet, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
A2 FA d~f3|dfef d~B3| A2 FA dfef|1 dBAF ADDB :|2 dBAF ADD2||
|:~a3 a afef|afef d~B3|fb (3bbb bafa|bfaf feef|
b~f3 afed|afef d~B3|(3ABA FA dfef |1 dBAF ADD2 :|2 dBAF ADDB||

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The Sailor's Bonnet sheetmusic
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The last of the tree reels in the "Tarbolon Set" this is both an easy & hard reel at the same time. Not much to it but since it's got lots of repeated figures it's a little tough to get the phrasing memorized. this is a great reel on it's own as well.

# Posted on February 27th 2002 by Mad Baloney

It's in B minor

it's in B minor

# Posted on January 1st 2003 by dogmageek

It's in D major

it's in D major

# Posted on December 9th 2008 by D.J.F.

Sailor's Bonnet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d7Nunf7i6g

Second tune

# Posted on June 11th 2009 by bogman

you could call this kind o tune a 'marching reel'. There are a few of those around, like The Cocktail, The Blackbird frae Clough, etc

# Posted on July 16th 2009 by birlibirdie

Does anyone else play the first part four times, so that the first and second parts end up the same length? I found myself doing that at a session the other day, much to the confusion of some other musicians. I only realised afterwards that most people play the first part half the length of the second...

# Posted on July 29th 2010 by Joe CSS

On an Arlo Guthrie Recording

iTunes has it credited to an Guthrie recording "Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys" 1973. Purely guessing by ear the fiddler's Kevin Burke.

# Posted on September 11th 2010 by dayepipes

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