Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on June 23rd 2002 by B Rad .
This tune has been added to 138 tunebooks.
Also known as Bob Steele's, The Boys Of New York, The Hand Down On My Tackle, Hand Down The Tackle, Hand Me Down My Tackle, Hand Me Down The Tackle, Miss Flanagan, The Pure Drop, Reidy Johnnson's, Reidy Johnson's, Tom Steele's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Tom Steele
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|: dD~D2 FDFA | dfaf gfec | dD~D2 FDFA | GFEF GABc |
dD~D2 FDFA | dfaf gfec |d2 ec dBAF | GFEF GABc :||
d2 fd Adfd | ~d2 fd edBc | d2 fd Adfd | BdAG FDDA |
[1 d2 fd Adfd | cdef ~g2 fg | afge fede | BdAG FDD2 :|
[2 ~a3b agfa | ~g2 ef gbag | faeg fdAF | GFEF GABc ||
Common Session Tune
A good solid common irish session tune, enjoyable on any instrument. AKA as "Reidy Johnson's" & "Hand Me Down The Tackle". One of the few tune names with a dangling participle.
# Posted on June 23rd 2002 by B Rad
Here is a transcription of a version by Sean Ryan. Not all that different from that already posted, but it shows his ornamentation. Same key etc.
dD (3DDD FD (3FGA|dfaf {a}gfec|dD (3DDD FAAF|(3Bcd AF EDB,D|
dD (3DDD FD (3FGA|dfaf {a}gfec|d2 (3edc dBAF|(3GGG EF GABc:|
d2fd Adfd|(3ddd fd BAFA|(3ddd fd Adfd|(3Bcd AF EDB,D|
d2fd Adfd|cdef g2fg|(3agf (3gfe fdec|(3dcB AF EDB,D|
d2fd Adfd|(3ddd fd BAFA|(3ddd fd Adfd|(3Bcd AF EDB,D|
(3agf ab agfa|g2 {a}(3gfg gage|faeg fdAF|(3GGG EF GABc||
# Posted on November 25th 2002 by Trevor Jennings
Here's a transcription of another version played by Declan Masterson on the uilleann pipes on his recording 'End of the Harvest':
d~D3 FAAF | dgfd edBc | d~D3 FAAF | GFEF GABc
d~D3 FAAF | dgfd edBd | fdec dcBA | ~G3F GABc::
de(3fed AdfA | dfed cdec | de(3fed Adfd | BGEF GABc
de(3fed AdfA | dfed cdeg | fdec dcBA | ~G3F GABc:|
In my opinion this one somehow flows a little better than the one written here.
# Posted on March 8th 2003 by EldKatt
Its a nice little banjo tune;)
# Posted on March 18th 2009 by jlocky
Not the tune on "The Godfather"
The tune Mr. Rooney plays on "The Godfather" listed as "Tom Steele" is known by some as "Tilly Finn´s" ( Fred Finn´s sister ).
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by Tim@Copenhagen
This tune is in the Gunn Book (Fermanagh 1865) as The Boys of New York
# Posted on November 12th 2009 by The Archivist
Uh...
There's no dangling participle, Brad...maybe if it was "Hand Me The Tackle Down".
# Posted on February 15th 2010 by timmy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmDmjZtDYeQ
I only ever knew this tune as Hand Me Down the Tackle
# Posted on July 16th 2010 by Free Reed
Johnny Henry's version
This version goes down to middle c, which sounds sort of cool. Much more triplets, maybe the Donegal influence.
X: 1
T: Reidy Johnson's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
dD D/D/D EDFA | dfaf gfec | dD D/D/D FDAD | BFAF EFAB |
dD D/D/D EDFA | dfaf gfeg | f2 eg fdAF | GFED CDBc |
dD D/D/D EDFA | dfaf gfec | dcde fdAF | GFED CDBc |
dD D/D/D EDFA | dfaf gfeg | f2 eg fdAF | GFED CDBc ||
|: d2 fd Adfd | d/d/d fd gfec | dcde fdAF | GFED CDBc |
[1 d2 fd Adfd | cdef g2 fg | afge faec | dBAF EDCD :|
[2 ~a3 b afdf | ~g2 gf gbag | f2 eg fdAF | GFED CDBc |]
# Posted on July 9th 2011 by enirehtac