Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 19th 2008 by Bill Farmer.
This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Metal Man
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmaj
|:FG A2F2|D2F2A2|cd e2c2|d2B2G2|FG A2F2|D2F2A2|E2ED EF|G2F2E2|
FG A2F2|D2F2A2|cd e2f2|g2f2e2|d2A2F2|GA B2G2|FE D2C2|D6:|
|:f2d2A2|e2c2A2|B2BA Bc|d2A2F2|GA B2G2|FG A2F2|E2ED EF|G2F2E2|
f2d2A2|e2c2A2|B2BA Bc|d2A2F2|GA B2G2|FE D2C2|D6-|D6:|
Origin
Does anyone here know the origin of this tune? It's published in The Lewes Favourites, with a picture of the real Metal Man at the entrance to Sligo Harbour. However, as it wasn't on here already, is it of Irish origin?
# Posted on August 19th 2008 by Bill Farmer
Hmm
don't know but it's lovely.....
thankyou....
# Posted on September 6th 2008 by paulflute
C: Robin Dransfield, English
~ after an iron lighthouse off the coast of County Cork, Ireland.
Courtesy of The Fiddler's Companion ~ Andrew Kuntz
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/MER_MIC.htm
# Posted on December 6th 2008 by ceolachan