Key signature: Amixolydian
Submitted on April 2nd 2004 by Phantom Button.
This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.
Also known as Long Slender Sally, The Long Slender Sally.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Hop Down, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amix
B/c/d|:e2E2 A2GB|A2B/c/d ed B/c/d|agec d2ed|BAGB d2 B/c/d:|
|eA~A2 eAdA|eAfA gAfA|eA~A2 eAdA|BAGB d2 B/c/d|
eA~A2 eAdA|eAfA gfga|bgab gedg |BAGB d2|
The Hop Down
This is a mighty tune that I got from Harry Bradley. It lends it's self to Harry's punctuated breathing style. It's like the "articulated cough" that Ciaran Carson refers to when he describes John McKenna's playing style in his pocket guide to ITM. All of you flute and whistle players will enjoy this tune.
Harry told me that a friend of his wrote it, but he forgot what name he had for it. I forgot his friend's name, but I remember looking at the liner notes to Mary Staunton's debut CD 'Bright Early Mornings' and found his friend's name and the title of the tune as well. Maybe if one of you has a copy of that recording you can post that fella's name here.
# Posted on April 2nd 2004 by Phantom Button
Harry Bradley! What a man he is! How can I imitate his flute playing?
# Posted on April 2nd 2004 by slainte
McConnell
Cathal McConnell recorded this tune in 1978 on his 1st solo LP under the title "The Long Slender Sally". The sleeve notes say he got the tune from a whistle player at a Fleadh.Mary Staunton's sleeve notes say she learned it from Sarah and Rita Keane of Co. Galway, but there is no mention of a composer.
# Posted on April 2nd 2004 by Kenny
Any relation to Long Tall Sally made famous by Richard Penniman of Macon, Georgia ?
# Posted on April 2nd 2004 by murfbox
Well... it's been a while now since I've seen the liner notes on Mary's CD. At least I was right about the name being there. But now it makes me wonder if Harry did tell me his friend penned it. I like Cathal's name for it, I wonder if Mary made up the name she has for it so she could put it on her CD.
# Posted on April 3rd 2004 by Phantom Button
This is a mighty tune indeed. I, too, got it from Harry last November at a workshop. If I recall correctly, he labeled the tune as a set dance. "Long slender Sally" was the name he had for it about six months later.
# Posted on August 28th 2006 by Markus
Keane sisters' name
The title "The Hop Down" appeared on Rita and Sarah Keane's recording "At the Setting of the Sun" on the Demon label, which featured a few instrumental tracks.
# Posted on June 27th 2008 by blarneystar