Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on October 29th 2003 by noah.
This tune has been added to 27 tunebooks.
Also known as The Hayden Fancy, Mary Ann, Mary Ann's, Teada.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: O'Connor's
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
|:D>E GB|D>E GB|AE ED/E/|GE EG|
D>E GB|D>E GB|AE FG| AG G2:|
|:dB BA/B/|dB B>A|GE ED/E/|GE E2|
dB BA/B/|dB B>A|AE FG| AG G2:|
This is called Mary Ann in Matt Cunningham's Dance Music of Ireland
For some reason the B section of this tune reminds me of that little ditty that all of us played on the piano when we were kids (at least those of us who couldn't really play the piano) where we would run our knuckles on the group of 3 black keys sluring up and then hit the next black key up (c#) a couple of times and then slur down on the black keys and hit the d# a couple of times.
Anyway I think this goes well followed by Biddy Martin and then the Barren Rock of Aden.
# Posted on January 13th 2004 by ralpheym
O'Connor's Polka
This is the very first polka I've learned! It's also on Beginish's first album though no name is given. And I still remember Martin Hayes play it on the stage around a couple of years ago in Edinburgh.
# Posted on August 13th 2004 by slainte
O'Connor's Polka
If I remember rightly the title was given by the Boys of the Lough after Martin O'Connor, from whom they learnt the polka. On a later recording they also played it as a jig, rather successfully. I heard it played in an Edinburgh session many years ago by Neil Davie.
# Posted on December 23rd 2005 by nigelg
Teada = "O'Connor's Polka" ~ just 'slightly' different
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on December 23rd 2005 by Zazzaliss.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/5342
If you know this tune as 'Teada' or 'Teada's', I suspect that was just 'Zazzaliss' not having a name and their choosing to assign the name of the band 'Teada' to their transcription, not a method I would recommend or respect. 'Gan Ainm' will do just fine until a name can be found for a thing, or its duplication...
# Posted on November 9th 2006 by ceolachan
O'Connor's Polka
I'm sure I've seen this as "The Hayden Fancy", but where? Hold on, just found it: it's in one of Sully's session books. He got it from the Tulla Ceili Band.
# Posted on December 5th 2006 by nigelg