Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on July 19th 2009 by AngusF.
This tune has been added to 18 tunebooks.
Also known as The Boston Boys.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Boston Boys
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Cmaj
CE ~E2 GAGE|Dddc ~d2 cA|GcEc GAca|gedg ec ~c2|
~C2 CE GAGE|Dddc dcAc|GcEc GAca|gedg eccB||
~c2(ec) gcec|cdea gede|~c2 ec gcec|GAcg eccB|
~c2ec gcec|cdea gedg|cdcA GAca|gedg ec~c2||
Boston Boys
More or less as played by Mick Moloney on one of his earlier LPs. If anyone wants the details of the LP let me know. It also appears in Bulmer & Sharpley Vol 4 P12 No 35.
# Posted on July 19th 2009 by AngusF
Another key
In G -
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4622
# Posted on July 22nd 2009 by concertinaplayer
The other setting that concertinaplayer points to is actually in D. It's mislabeled in the abc file.
# Posted on July 23rd 2009 by Will Harmon
The Boston Boys
Paddy Cronin once played this to me in a deserted bar, and his way of it makes a better tune, to my ear.
In the first part, bars 1 &5 opened CECE (none of your long C), and bar 8 ended 'ge' to lead into the 2nd part bars 1/2 &5/6:
~g2ec gcec gcea....etcetera. Otherwise, he played it largely as noted here.
# Posted on July 23rd 2009 by Jerry O'Donnell