The Flowing Tide

hornpipe

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on February 28th 2004 by Conway.

This tune has been added to 85 tunebooks.

Also known as Bunch Of Ferns, Burke's Hornpipe., Flowing Tide, Higgins Best, Seventh Regiment, The Picnic Reel, The Seventh Regiment.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Ace And Deuce by Ace And Deuce
• Beyond The Shore by Deby Benton Grosjean
• Boys Of The Lough by Boys Of The Lough
• Caught In The Surf by Sheamus Heneghan And Family
• Cooley's House by Conor Keane
• Coppers And Brass by Dick Gaughan
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 11 by Matt Cunningham
• Dratsville by Greanstalk
• Eileen Ivers by Eileen Ivers
• Feenish Legacy by Marcus Hernon And Padraic Coyne
• Happy Days by Trad Lads
• IAANJ Session V by Mike And Mary Rafferty And Session Musicians
• Irish Heritage: Ireland's Musical Tradition (CD 1) by Various Artists
• Irish Traditional Flute Solos And Band Music From Kerry And Tipperary by Billy Clifford
• Jody's Heaven by Jody's Heaven
• Kilbride by Kilbride Brothers
• Mind The Pipes by Leonard Barry
• Over The Moor To Maggie by Oisin
• Raise The Rafters by Molly's Revenge
• Rock And More Roses by Pat Kilbride
• Round The House And Mind The Dresser: Irish Country House Dance Music by Various Artists
• Sea Changes Of The Toucan Pirates by Toucan Pirates
• Seamus Tansey With Eddie Corcoran by Seamus Tansey
• Sets In The City by Tipsy House
• Silver Apples Of The Moon by Ceoltoiri
• So Far by Eileen Ivers
• Taking Note by Meitheal Cheoil
• The Fertile Rock by Chris Droney
• The Flowing Tide by Chris Droney
• The Lightning Fields by Robin Bullock
• The New Land by Touchstone
• The Unseen Hours by Malinky
• To Hell With The Begrudgers by Seamus Tansey And Jim McKillop
• Traditional Music Of Ireland, Vol. 1 by Sean Ryan
• Two Champions: Irish Traditional Music At Its Best. by Sean McGuire And Joe Burke

X: 1
T: Flowing Tide, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|:D |~G3 B dGBd |GBdg bgag |(3efg dg Bdge |dBAG edBA |
~G3 B dGBd |GBdg bgag |(3efg dg Bdge |dBAB G3 :|
|: D |GFGB AGED |gfge dBAG |(3cde Bd ABGB |cABG AG (3EFG |
DGBd B3 d |cABG AG (3EFG |DGBd gdBG |DGFA G3 :|

The Flowing Tide

Also known round these parts as the Floating Turd, perhaps a comment on the Severn Estury. Despite this it's a lovely tune, the Kilbride Brothers do a nice slow version; we do an equally competent version preceded by the Home Ruler.

# Posted on February 28th 2004 by Conway

Flowing Tide

The version now played is a key-of-G setting of the original one in A major, which requires a shift to a higher postion on the fiddle and is not easily played by BC button accordionists, flute players or concertina players.

The most elaborate printed version is "The Seventh Regiment" in Ryan's Mammoth Collection, which attributes it to the 19th-century fiddler Conn Higgins. O'Neill borrowed it and changed the name to "Higgins' Best." The Seventh Regiment was a National Guard regiment based in New York and supported by the city's wealthier uptown element (as opposed to the downtown, working-class Irish 69th Regiment).

# Posted on March 8th 2004 by blarneystar

T:The Seventh Regiment - - - tapping sources

M:4/4
L:1/8
R: hornpipe (swingin' as given) / reel
S: Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883
- indirectly, where it was listed in 2/4 time as a 'reel'
K: Amaj
|: A2 A>c e>Ac>e | a>ce>a (3c’d'c' b>a | f>ae>a c>ea>f | e>cB>A F>AE>C |
A,2 A>c e>Ac>e | a>ce>a (3c’d'c' b>a | f>ae>a c>ef>e | c>eB>e A4 :|
|: A2 A>c B>AF>A | a>ga>f e>cB>A | d>fc>e B>dA>c | d>Bc>A B>AF>A |
E>Ac>e a>ce>a | d’>bc’>a b>af>a | e>ac>f e>d’b>g | a2 a2 a4 :|

# Posted on June 10th 2005 by ceolachan

Set

This is good in a set with the Flowers of Edinburgh

# Posted on August 21st 2005 by irishimp

I think this makes a better reel than hornpipe - you don't need to make many adjustments for it to work. I like my hornpipes to sound like hornpipes, I'm afraid.

# Posted on May 9th 2007 by Dow