Key signature: Bminor
Submitted on July 15th 2004 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.
Also known as Lead The Knave.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Johnny From Gandsey
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Bmin
FBBA BdcB|AFEF A4|FB~B2 dBAF|ABde f3a|
bafa bafe|dBAB d3e|fgfe dBAF|1 FEFA B3A:|2 FEFA B3a||
bafa bafb|afef a3b|bafe dBAF|ABde f3a|
bafa bafe|dBAB d3e|fgfe dBAF|1 FEFA B3a:|2 FEFA B3A||
Johnny from Gandsey
Yesterday, I was listening to the recording of a radio programme and suddenly realised this tune is an Irish version of "John of Badenyon": http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1480 (In Cape Breton it's known as "The Old Time Wedding Reel #1") It's quite easy to see the resemblance between the two tunes, but this version is in Bm and has some quite different phrases including the very first bar, so I believe it's worth posting as a distinct tune.
The playing of this tune on a radio programme was taken from a recent recording "Re-Joyce," on which Maire O'Keeffe, Jackie Daly, Donal O'Connor, and John Faulkner play almost forgotten tunes from the Joyce collection published in 19th century.
This isn't the accurate transcription from their playing, but I changed it a little bit. Hope you enjoy this version of the tune.
# Posted on July 15th 2004 by slainte
P.S. I've just found the transcription from the Joyce Colletion in JC's ABC tune finder. It's in Ador, but I personally think the Bm version recorded on "Re-Joyce" sounds better. And I don't want to play both the Irish and the Cape Breton versions in the same key simply because I might mix up the two versions in the future.
# Posted on July 15th 2004 by slainte