The Factory Smoke

hornpipe

Key signature: Eminor

Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.

This tune has been added to 76 tunebooks.

Also known as The Brown Coffin, Factory Smoke, The Tide Come In, The Tide Comes In, The Tide Coming In, When The Tide Comes In.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

An Traidisiun Beo by Angelina Carberry
Celtic Passion by John Williams, Dean Magraw
Martin Hayes by Martin Hayes
Shame The Devil by Turlach Boylan
The Blue Lamp by Jonny Hardie And Gavin Marwick
Traditional Fiddle Music Of Cape Breton Volume 4 Mackinnon's Brook by Various Artists
William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book by Robert Harbron, Nancy Kerr, Miranda Rutter, Tim Van Eyken

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

X: 1
T: Factory Smoke, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Emin
|:B>A|G>FE>D E>FG>A|B2 E2 E2 f>e|d>cB>A G>AB>G|(3ABA (3GFE D2 B>A|
G>FE>D E>FG>A|B>e^d>f e2 e>=d|c>BA>G A>cB>A|1G2 E2 E2:|2G2 E2 E2||
|:e>f|g>eB>G e>BG>E|B,>EG>B e>Bg>e|f>dA>F d>AF>D|A,>DF>A B>AG>F|
G>FE>D E>FG>A|B>e^d>f e2 e>B|c>BA>G A>cB>A|1G2 E2 E2:|2G2 E2 E2||

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Factory Smoke

I got this tune from guitarist Tony Cuffe some years ago. First time I've seen it in Em -Gm is the more "normal key", in my experience. I'm sure it's in one of the "Kerr" books as "When The Tide Comes In". Martin Hayes has it as "The Brown Coffin". There's a major key version called "The Ebb Tide", which has been recorded by the late John Kelly Snr and also Seamus Egan. This particular posted version looks very similar to that particular version. It's a great tune in all it's settings, and one of the few I do try on the flute in Gm. Nice post, jocklet.

# Posted on September 16th 2003 by Kenny

Hayes's version, The Brown Coffin, from his first eponymous cd, "Martin Hayes" is in Gm, a favored key among many Clare and East Galway musicians. It goes as follies the first time round:

T: The Brown Coffin
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gm
dc |: BAGF GABc | d2 GF Gbag | f2 dc BcdB | cBAG F2 dc |
| BAGF GABc | dg (3fga ~g3d | edcB cedc | 1 B2 G2 G2 dc :|
|2 B2 G2 G2 z2||
|: bgdB gdBG | DGBd gbag | afcA fcAF | CFAc fcAc |
|BAGF GABc | dg (3ggf g2 zd | edcB cedc |1 B2 G2 G2 z2 :|
|2 B2 G2 G2 dc ||

# Posted on September 16th 2003 by Miss Lonelyhearts

The Factory Smoke Hornpipe

I have this tune from a book ,W;C Honeyman's "Strathspey,Reel And Hornpipe Tutor",published in 1898.It contains some unusual hornpipes,some in flat keys,that I've never heard in sessions or on record.I transposed The Factory Smoke Hornpipe,it's in Bflat in the book.I can post that version if you like,it gives the tune a whole different character.There's even an Eflat version of the Trumpet Hornpipe.It's a fascinating book,,Honeyman distinguishes between three styles of hornpipe bowing,namely,the sailor's hornpipe style,the newcastle style and the sand dance style.I've never met a fiddler who knows these styles or has even heard of them.I certainly haven't. David Meredith (alias Jocklet)

# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd

Good Tune!
being a flute player, I prefer the version in Emin.

# Posted on September 18th 2003 by gian marco

An old Tune

A good version in G minor is in Sean McGuire and Josie Keegan`s book from 1975-Irish tunes by the hundred.

# Posted on March 10th 2004 by cos

James Hill

This tune is often attributed to James Hill, who was one of the pioneers of the modern4/4 hornpipe and wrote most of his tunes in 'flat' keys. He was a resident of Gateshead on the river Tyne (having moved there from Dundee as a child). He was seemingly very prolific and a bit of a local legend in the 1800s - and still is in a way. The Factory Smoke was found in a couple of his manuscripts - which doesn't necessarily mean he wrote it... Suits his style though. It's a great tune. Incedentally, Sean Maguire wrote the famous variations for another Hill tune - The Beeswing (Bb!!!)

# Posted on January 24th 2006 by slim

From the Fiddler's Companion: "The tune is sometimes attributed to Tyneside fiddler and composer James Hill (it is included in Graham Dixon’s 1987 book of Hill compositions, The Lads Like Beer), but the attribution is conjectural. The Charlton Memorial Tune Book (1956) attributes an E minor version of the tune (called “When the Tide Comes in”) to one Jack Davidson."

That would be Jack "Kielder Jock" Davidson, presumably.

# Posted on May 8th 2007 by Dow

When The Tide Comes In

# Posted on May 9th 2007 by Dow

This might go well with Jack's The Lad http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1097 if you played Jack's a bit slow and swingy rather than in true sailor's hornpipe style.

# Posted on May 9th 2007 by Dow

Sorry, typo in the 3rd transcription:

# Posted on May 9th 2007 by Dow

Also in Dm

In Randy Miller's tunebook, The Fiddler's Throne, this tune appears in Dm, and lays very well on the fiddle in that key. He titles it "The Tide Comes In", and attributes James Hill as the composer. I like to follow it up with The Golden Eagle at a slightly brisker tempo - they make a nice pair.

# Posted on June 6th 2007 by gwfowler

just listening to this one for the first time now... a lovely tune. I just wish it weren't syncopated on the sheet music already.

# Posted on June 8th 2007 by wathgwen