Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on September 5th 2006 by JonathanR.
This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Gally Canter, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:DFA BAF|DFA def|agf edB|AFD ~E3|
DFA BAF|DFA def|agf edB|Adc d3:|
|:f2f ~g3|fga bge|~f3 edB|AFD ~E3|
GFE DFA|Bcd ecA|f2a bge|1edc d2 e:|2edc dAF||
Composer
Why no info on the tune? Composed by famed Donegal fiddler Dinny McLaughlin of Shandrum, Buncrana. The Gally Canter was a rooster which used to wake him up each day during a stay in Jersualem in the 1990s. Great wee tune! And only one of Dinny's many great compositions.
# Posted on September 6th 2006 by LongNote
Longnote, thanks for the details and credit where credit is due.
# Posted on September 7th 2006 by Will Harmon
Another one of Dinny's tunes
For another of Dinny's -- a reel this time -- check "The Jinkin' Mermaid". I saw Dinny in concert in October last year during a short visit he made to the US with Liz Doherty, Jim and Damaris Woods. Glad to say he is still the same fiddler, showman, yarn spinner and entertainer he was when I first heard him play over 30 years ago. Also a champion dancer in his day, Dinny is a veritable showcase of traditional arts and a one-man home entertainment system.
# Posted on September 7th 2006 by LongNote
Similar
Reminds me of
The Cape Breton Jig but played in D as Dervish does: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/838
# Posted on September 8th 2006 by Why Bother?
Don't think so.
# Posted on September 8th 2006 by slainte
Sorry Unseen for my very unfriendly comment above. I didn't mean to be that rude. But I still don't see much similarity between the two tunes.
# Posted on September 9th 2006 by slainte
I don't think it sounds particularly similar except the first three notes go up the way in both tunes (different notes though) If you see a similarity perhaps you should stick them together in a set.
# Posted on September 9th 2006 by No Cause For Alarm
This tune is obviously related to the Blue Danube by Johann Strauss, and also to Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns n' Roses. Too similar to put in a set together though - you'd only end up confusing them.
# Posted on September 9th 2006 by Dr. Dow