Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.
Also known as Back O' The Haggard, Kershaw's, Woodcock Hill, Standing Abbey.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Back Of The Haggard, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
(3ABc|:df (3fff ec A2|dcdB AF (3DEF|GFGB Afed|cd e2 dc B2|
dA (3AAA eA (3AAA|fefg af d2|GBAG FAEA|F2D2D2 (3ABc:|
|:dAFA DAFA|BG (3GGG DG (3GGG|gefd ed (3ddd|
cd e2 dcBc|Ad (3ddd ce (3eee|df (3fff eg (3ggg|fagf edce|d2 dc d2 (3ABc:|
Back Of The Haggard/Kershaw's
This is such a nice tune, and undeservedly neglected. The first couple of bars remind me of Ciaran Tourish's reel "The Windmill". The version I play avoids same-note triplets and has some nice English-style 6th leaps:
|:(3ABc|dfdf ecAc|dcdB AFDF|GFGB Afed|c2A2 A2(3ABc|
dAAd eAAe|fefg afdc|BdcB AFGE|D2DC D2:|
|:(3ABc|dcdA FDFA|BGFG DGFG|gefd ecdB|Afed cBAG|
FddF GeeG|AffA Bg (3gag|fafd Bgec|d2dc d2:|
# Posted on July 21st 2004 by Dr. Dow
I know this name
i play this tune myself but this version is extremly different to mine...
# Posted on October 28th 2006 by saxwhistle
go here for another version http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6301
# Posted on October 30th 2006 by Dr. Dow
Yup
yeah, i added the other version, small world, eh? lol
thanks anyway.
# Posted on October 30th 2006 by saxwhistle
From the Roche Collection
Another, different take from the Roche Collection,where it goes by the titles "Woodcock Hill" and "Standing Abbey."
K: D
A2 | dcdf ecAc | dBGB AFDF | EGFA GBgf | edcB AABc |
dcdf e^deg | fefg afdA | BdcB AGFE | D2 d2 d2 :|
B2 | A^GAc ecAc | edcB Adfa | gfeg fedf | (3efe (3dcB (3ABA (3GFE |\
DFAd EGBd |
FAdf afda | BdcB (3ABA (3GFE | (3DFA (3dfa d' z :|
# Posted on October 11th 2008 by gravelwalks
The 'other' tune..
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6301
# Posted on October 11th 2008 by gravelwalks
..and I now see that Dow was already on top of that link!
# Posted on October 11th 2008 by gravelwalks