Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on May 31st 2008 by nicholas.
This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.
Also known as Keswick Bonnie Lasses.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Keswick Bonny Lasses
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
A2|: d2 f>d d>c B>A| B>c d>c B>A G>F| G2 B>A G>F E>D| C2 A,2 A,2 (3ABc |
d2 f>d d>c B>A| B>c d>c B>A G>F| G>A B>c d>A B>G |1 F2 D2 D2 (3ABc :|2 F2 D2 D2 A>G||
|: F>D F>A d>A G>F| G>E G>B e>c A>G | F>D F>A d>A G>F | G2 E2 E2 (3ABc |
d2 f>d d>c B>A | B>c d>c B>A G>F | G>A B>c d>A B>G|1 F2 D2 D2 A>G :|2 F2 D2 D2 ||
Keswick Bonny Lasses - hornpipe
A nice hornpipe off The Boat Band's album "A Trip To The Lakes", a collection of tunes played in the past and present by musicians in the English Lake District. I don't know if it has any alternative name elswhere: Kuntz's "Fiddler's Companion" site gives none, in its mention of the tune.
On the album it's played in D, and the C# and A below bottom D can be accommodated by melodeons with a D-row as on the album. Those whose instruments lack these notes will have to alter the melody line, take it up an octave, or play the tune in another key.
# Posted on May 31st 2008 by nicholas
The last triplet in the sheet music should be replaced by: A>G
(*Not* (3ABc, as printed.)
I've changed the abc's.
# Posted on June 1st 2008 by nicholas
Keswick Bonny Lasses
The Boat Band follow this with the Grand Hornpipe which is another great tune, not heard much at the sessions I get to
# Posted on June 2nd 2008 by ph
Keswick bonny lasses
We play the grand HP http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3909
with the Sportsman's HP (try JC's tunefinder)
Chris
# Posted on June 2nd 2008 by spindizzy
Keswick Bonny Lasses
Love this tune -- learned it from the Boat Band CD mentioned above. I did not look at the notation provided here but I wonder if the Boat Band has their own version? They seem to add a triplet set of notes not usually played in the intro to each section (both A & B? Just asking. Also, I find second measure of the B section hard to play on the mandolin because last four 8th notes tend to mess up my picking pattern. I like to keep to DUDUDU and the change from G B E C# phrase mess me up because I can't make myself do the down on the B -- I fixed it by playing the E on the 7th fret of the A course instead to the open E course.
Of course I know someone will say well don't lock on to DUDUDU all the time -- but that's what I do! (<:
# Posted on January 26th 2011 by Mandolin1944