Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on August 30th 2003 by Conway.
This tune has been added to 41 tunebooks.
Also known as The Gyspy, Leggett's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Boys Of Ballycastle, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|:ef|gfed edBd| edeg B2 BA|G2 GA BABd|e2 A2 A2 ga|
bagf gfed|edeg B2 BA|G2 GA BcBA|G2 E2 E2 :|
|:gf |e2 B2 B2 gf|e2 B2 B2 gf|e2 ef gfga|b2 e2 e2 ga|
bagf gfed|edeg B2 BA|G2 GA BcBA|G2 E2 E2:|
Played with a nice swing by Kevin Burke on "Up Close".
# Posted on August 30th 2003 by Conway
Hornpipe?
Isn't this tune a hornpipe?
# Posted on August 31st 2003 by Kenny
The Boys of Ballycastle
I'd agree, Kenny. The tune has that rhythm at the end of the 4-bar phrases that is typical of so many hornpipes.
Trevor
# Posted on August 31st 2003 by lazyhound
It is a hornpipe I think. I play it with Napoleon Crossing the Rhine. They make a nice set.
# Posted on September 2nd 2003 by Geoff Pollitt
Hornpipe
This tune is certainly a hornpipe and I have come across a few musicians who called it 'The Gipsy Hornpipe',
Good Luck
Mikea
# Posted on September 2nd 2003 by Mikea
This is called Leggett's Reel in Kerr's Merry Melodies. Don't know why anyone would play it as a reel, though.
# Posted on March 8th 2005 by Kevin Rietmann
Boys of Ballycastle
Jimmy Shand recorded a very similar (major-key) tune called "The cairdin' o't" at reel tempo, which Kevin Burke has also recorded.
# Posted on March 12th 2006 by pipheath