Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on November 12th 2003 by Aidan Crossey.
This tune has been added to 31 tunebooks.
Also known as The Flop Eared Mule.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Donkey, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:=f2^f2 c2d2|ABAG FED2|E2EF GECE|DEFG A4|
=f2^f2 c2d2|ABAG FED2|E2EF GECE|1 D2F2 D4:|2 D2F2 D2||
|:cd|efed cAcd|efed cBA2|B2Bc d2^G2|ABcd e2cd|
efec efec|efed cBA2|B2Bc dB^GB|A2c2 A2:||
Hee-haw
Not a tune I'm familiar with, I just located the abc elsewhere (I know, I know, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa ... I'll say a couple of decades if it makes people feel better) and posting as a favour to someone who requested it ...
# Posted on November 12th 2003 by Aidan Crossey
Donkey Reel
Cheers. I'll check it out later (at work, shouldnt even be on tinternet, Damn I'm a rebel!!!). I'm hoping its the one that the dubliners play with the prefix' C'mon mule, get off the road' on their live at Albert Hall LP
# Posted on November 12th 2003 by deharvey2002
Donkey reel
Looks like the Dubliners' one to me . It's an American "old-timey" tune , I think. Somebody must recognise it.
# Posted on November 12th 2003 by Kenny
Well ... if anybody does recognise it and the setting's execrable, please suggest amendments here!
# Posted on November 12th 2003 by Aidan Crossey
Donkey Reel
Also known as "Flop Eared Mule"
# Posted on November 13th 2003 by snorre
Or...
mop-eared fule
as Molesworth might sa
# Posted on November 13th 2003 by Conán McDonnell
Or...
D Euro MP fella
# Posted on November 13th 2003 by ragaman
Donkey reel vintage -71
It´s the first celtic? tune Í´ve ever heard, around -71. Someone playing it in a street in Copenhagen. I remember it as it was yesterday. Wonder why? Maybee because it may has planted the first little seed which now have grown into a real love & interest in this kind of music; AND IN PLAYING IT! Thanks to tha t guy in -71 whoever
# Posted on November 13th 2003 by fiel
The Donkey
IT4S NOT A
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
The Donkey
It's not a Celtic tune,it's an American sqare dance tune and it usually goes like this
|:f2f2d2d2|ABAF D2 D2|E2 EF GF E2|1DEFG A2 A2:|2D2FD2D2|:efec efec|efec A2 A2|B2 Bc dc B2|1ABcd e2 e2:|2A2c2A2A2|
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Donkey Reel
It is played quite a bit in these parts ( Canada, USA) and is generally known as Flop Eared Mule.
The tune can be ornamented a bit by plucking the E string at the start of the B part.
It also can be played as a schottische.
# Posted on November 16th 2003 by leftynow