Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 4 tunebooks.
Also known as John Rea's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Jackson's Return From Dover
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
FG|:AAA ABc|BAG EFG|AAA ABc|BAG E2 D|
EGG EGG|EGG GED|AAA ABc|BAB GAB|
cBc A2G|1FDD DFG:|2FDD D2e||
|:fdd edd|fdd def|gfg e2d|cAA A2 e|
fdd ede|gfe dcA|AAA ABc|1BAG E2e:|2BAG EFG||
Jackson's Return From Dover
I got this tune many years ago from a Seannachie album by an Irish hammer dulcimer player,whose name escapes me.It's the only Irish jig I've ever heard with ten bars(in the first part).Does anybody know anything about this tune? David Meredith
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Jackson's Return from Dover
Bars 5 and 6 in the A-part appear to be the extra ones. I wonder if this tune was written specifically for a particular set dance where the number of bars in the tune had to match the length of the dance.
Trevor
# Posted on September 29th 2003 by lazyhound
John Rea
The tune is on a record of John Rea, the legendary player of hammered dulcimer
# Posted on September 29th 2003 by swisspiper
I've always thought of this tune as a 'setdance' rather than a jig. I think Trevor J is right, it probably had a special dace to it
# Posted on June 23rd 2005 by Sharon the Flute
Jackson's Return from Dover
This seems a variant of "Connie the Soldier": http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/373
# Posted on April 5th 2006 by slainte