Key signature: Gminor
Submitted on November 11th 2003 by Mikea.
This tune has been added to 19 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Policeman's Request, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmin
|:DGGD GABG|dgga gfdf|F2FA cFAc|dAcA GAD2|
DGGD GABG|dgga gfdf|F2FA cFAc|dAcA BGG2:|
|:dggf gabg|agf^^e fgfd|cAfA gAfA|cdfa gfdc|
dggf gabg|agf^^e fgfd|cFAc FABc|dcBA BGG2:|
The policemans request
Most of my new tunes these days come from Michael Harty who I play with at least once a week.Michael used to play with Paddy O'Brien from Nehagh, Co Tipperary. I think this tune sounds best played slowish but not too slow, about 140.
Good Luck
Mike Allen.
# Posted on November 11th 2003 by Mikea
Policeman's request
This is a great tune and I have a brlliant recording of it by John Regan but I'd like to know if it is a Paddy O'Brien tune or not. It's not in a book of his tunes which I've got, unless under another name. Also, some of the notes in the version on this site sound a bit odd. Is it always played in Gminor?
# Posted on December 2nd 2004 by flutemike
Hi Flutemike
I don't think this is a Paddy O'Brien tune as it sounds out of character to his compositions, I must ask Michael Harty, I would say he will know one way or the other. The way it is posted here is the way we play it here in Tipperary, I have not heard any other setting of it.
Mike
# Posted on January 6th 2005 by Mikea
The other Paddy O'Brien
This tune is played in a beautiful performance by Oliver Devaney, all-Ireland accordianist, on the CD "Cairde". He pairs it with Josephine Marsh's Phyllis' Birthday in F (thesession tune 4149 in G).
In the liner notes he credits the tune to Paddy O'Brien of Offaly.
# Posted on March 6th 2005 by fiddlercjp