Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on May 16th 2003 by Rudall the time.
This tune has been added to 33 tunebooks.
Also known as Johnson's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Johnston's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
dB|:A2dA ^GABG|A2dA ^GABG|ABcB AGFG|AGFG EFG^G|
A2dA ^GABG|A2dA ^GABG|ABcB AGFG|1 ~E3F DEFG:|2 ~E3F D2dc||
Bcde fdBf|gfeg fdBd|(3ccc F2 (3ccc F2|cF^Ac fedc|
Bcde fdBf|gfeg fdBd|cF~F2 cF^Ac|1 fedc B2dc:|2 fedc Bfag||
f2de f2de|fdad bdad|(3cBA eA fAed|cdef bage|
f2de f2de|fdad bdad|cdef bage|1 d2f2 d2ag:|2 d2f2 d2||
Johnston's Hornpipe
I first heard this on a 78 by Will Starr, long before Frankie Gavin got his hands on it. Bobby Gardiner, however susequently made a great job of it.
Danny.
# Posted on May 16th 2003 by Rudall the time
Peter Letham
There's a relase by Topic records called 'Melodeon Greats', a compilation of recordings of Scottish melodeon players from the 20s and 30s. It fetures one player, Peter Letham, playing a verion of this tune, under the name of 'The Johnson Hornpipe'. It goes as follies:
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: G
(3Bc^c|dBgd ^cgec|dBgd ^cgec|(3d^cd fe d^c=cB|A^GAB A2Bc|
dBgd ^cgec|dBgd ^cgec|(3d^cd fe d^c=cB|A^GAB G2:|
:F2|EFGA BGEB|cBFB BGEG|(3FGF B,2 (3FGF B,2|FB,^DF BAGF|EFGA BGEB|cBFB BGEG|FB,^DF B3c|BAGF E:||
# Posted on May 21st 2003 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Joe Derrane recorded a Showman's Fancy medley on a 78 in the early 50s, with the title tune/Johnston's/Star of the East. I just found a dub in the Comhaltas Archives of an earlier 78 of Louis E Quinn & His Shamrock Minstrels playing Derrane's medley, with Louis taking a solo on Johnston's on the accordion.
# Posted on January 1st 2010 by KLR
Johnston's Hornpipe
Does anybody actually have the album that this transcription came from "Snug In The Blanket"? It's all in the liner notes. Paddy O'Brien composed the additional parts from the first recorded version. I believe, from Peter Wyper. I don't think it was Peter Letham.
# Posted on January 10th 2010 by jazlabaw
Snug In The Blanet Liner Notes ..
"This tune is normally played with two parts. For this recording, Paddy composed three more pars. In its original state, the tune has been especially favoured by old-time melodeon players, and was set down from time to time on 78rpm recordings."
It is recorded in Cmaj/Amin on "Snug in the Blanket" ..
# Posted on January 16th 2010 by JohnQ
Shepherd's Daughter in Bm
Peter Carbery has a lovely Bm setting of the tune on Music from Co Longford. This is a lovely CD. Here's how I play the tune on my flute, which is pretty much as Peter plays it:
X: 1
T: Shepherd's Daughter, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K:Bm
B3d BAFA|BE~E2 BE (3F^GA|B2dB BAF=G|AD~D2 AD (3FGA|
B2dB BAFA|BE~E2 F2FE|DEFA Bcde|fdec d2cd||
Beec d2cd|Beed BAFA|Beec d2cd|BdAB dAFA|
Beec d2cd|Beef gefd|Beec d2cd|BdAB dA (3FGA||
# Posted on November 22nd 2010 by David Levine