Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on May 3rd 2004 by Johannes J.
This tune has been added to 41 tunebooks.
Also known as Killiecrankie, Plancstai Daibhis, Planxty Davies, Planxty Davy.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Planxty Davis
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|:A(A/B/) A(F/G/)|A/F/A/B/ A>B|A/G/F/(E/ D/)E/F/G/|A(A/B/) A(d/c/)|
B(B/d/) B(A/c/)|B/A/B/c/ B(d/B/)|A/G/F/E/ D/E/F/A/|B(B/d/) Bb|
b/a/g/(b/ a/)f/e/g/|f/e/d/f/ e(d/e/)|f/e/d/B/ B/(A/d/F/)|A(A/B/) A(d/c/)|
(BA/)(B/ d)B/d/|(ed/)(e/ f)e/d/|B/(A/B/c/) dF|1 E2 D F/G/:|2 E2 D (f/g/)||
|:a(a/b/) a(f/g/)|a/g/a/b/ a(f/g/)|a/g/f/(e/ d/)e/f/g/|a(a/b/) a(f/a/)|
bb b(f/a/)|b/a/f/a/ b(b/g/)|a/g/f/(e/ d/)e/f/a/|b(b/a/) b(f/a/)|
b/a/f/(b/ a/)f/e/g/|f/e/d/f/ e(d/e/)|f/(e/d/B/) B/A/d/F/|
A(A/B/) A(d/c/)|(BA/)(B/ d)c/d/|e(d/e/) f(e/d/)|B/(A/B/c/) (dF)|1 E2 D f/g/:|2 E2 D2||
Not a polka
You'll probably realise this not a polka and shouldn't be played too fast. This was the only 2/4 possibilty!
Russell's House do a nice version on their album.
John
# Posted on May 3rd 2004 by Johannes J
Killiecrankie
Known in Scotland - where it may, or may not have originated -as "Killiecrankie". Recorded as such by Alison Kinnaird. My favourite version ( of "Planxty Davis" ) was recorded by Finbar Furey.
# Posted on May 3rd 2004 by Kenny
Poka??
Plaxty Davis is definitly a hornpipe set( Im an irish dancer)
# Posted on May 1st 2005 by ksly122937
Dodgy time sig.
This should be in 6/8, it is a hornpipe. The notes are all there though.
# Posted on July 10th 2006 by theperthvan
Never seen a hornpipe notated in 6/8 before.
# Posted on July 10th 2006 by Dow
Planxty Davis
This is a lot like John J's post, just written a little differently.
From the "Makin' the Rounds" setting of B. McComiskey, as I recall it. Donny Golden's dancing was the percussion.
X: 1
T: Planxty Davis
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
| FG |: A2AB A2FG | A>FA>B A3B | A>GF>E D>EF>G | A2AB A2FA |
|B2Bc B>AF>A | B>AB>c B2dB | A>GF>E D>EF>A | B2Bc B2b2 |
b>af>b a>fe>g | f>ed>f (3efe de | f>ed>B B>Ad>F | A2AB A2dc |
B2AB d2Bd | (3efe de f2ed | B>AB>c d2F2 |1 E4 D2FG :|2 E4 D2fg ||
a2ab a2fg | a>fa>b a3b | a>gf>e d>ef>g | a2ab a2fa |
b2bc' bafa | b>af>a b2c'b | a>gf>e d>ef>a | b2ba b2fa |
b>af>b a>fe>g | f>ed>f (3efe de | f>ed>B B>A d>F | A2AB A2dc |
B2AB d2Bd | (3efe de f2ed | B>AB>c d2F2 |1E4 D2fg :|2 E4 D4 ||
# Posted on July 10th 2006 by joesmith
Planxty Davis / Davy - played by Nic Jones on a masterpiece album
Under one of these names, rendered beautifully on guitar by singer - guitarist Nic Jones on his album "Penguin Eggs" - IMHO the best or at any rate equal best (!) to come out of the English trad revival; they didn't come better, at any rate. Nic's career was finished by a car crash a long time ago, although he is still alive.
(The penguin eggs feature in a song about whalemen working in the South Atlantic, where these were a treat in their diet.)
# Posted on September 28th 2006 by nicholas
Tony byrne
check out tony byrne playing planxty davis on youtube- real sweet
# Posted on August 2nd 2007 by poldebrun
Connellan brothers
This is one of the dozen or so surviving tunes composed by Thomas Connellan, an Irish harpist, who spent a lot of time in Scotland around the 1600s and named this tune after the battle of Killiecrankie. Brother of William Connellan - between them they composed over 700 tunes, only a handfull survive
# Posted on August 15th 2007 by poldebrun
Youtube
here's that tony byrne link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF8YqUHjxAk
# Posted on August 23rd 2007 by poldebrun
Not a hornpipe either...
I learned this tune with straight 4/4 rhythem, like a slow reel.
# Posted on June 19th 2008 by synaesthete402