Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on July 21st 2004 by jdicarlo.
This tune has been added to 50 tunebooks.
Also known as Leaving Friday Harbor.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Leaving Friday Harbour
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmaj
A2 | "D" f4 ed|\
M:2/4
"D/C#" ef "G/B" A2 |\
M:3/4
"D" f3f ed |\
"G/B" ef "D" a3f |
"G" (3ggg gf ed | "Gmaj7" ef B4 | "Em7" .d2 dcde |"A7" c/2d/2c BA "/C#" de |
"D" f4 ed |\
M:2/4
"D/C#" ef "G/B" A2 |\
M:3/4
"D" f3f ed | "G/B" ef "D" a3f |
"G" (3ggg gf ed | "Gmaj7" ef B3d | "A7" c/2d/2c BA "/C#" ef | "D" d4 :|
|: dc | "A7" c2 Ac "/C#" eg | "Dalt" gf a3f | "G" g2 B3g | "D" gf ef d/2e/2f |
"G" g2 B3g | "D" gf ef df | "Em" e2 B2 ef | "G" ed- dc BA |
[1 "A7" c2 Ac "/C#" eg | "Dalt" gf a3f | "G" g2 B3g | "D" gf ef dc |
"G" B2 GB B/2c/2d | "D" Ad f3a | "A7" ge cA "/C#" ef | "D" d4 :|
[2 "D" f4 ed |\
M:2/4
"D/C#" ef "G/B" A2 |\
M:3/4
"D" f3f ed |"G/B" ef "D" a3f |
"G" (3ggg gf ed | "Gmaj7" ef B3d |"A7" c/2d/2c BA "/C#" ef | "D" d4 ||
This tune was written by John McCusker about an amazing corner of Washington State. Be careful with the missing beat in the second bar. I've included my attempts at the chords from his album "Goodnight Ginger."
# Posted on July 21st 2004 by jdicarlo
Where is Friday Harbour?
# Posted on August 5th 2004 by RoisinB
Friday Harbour is on one of the 'San Juan' Islands off the north-west coast of America. I went there in March to the annual Irish music camp.....
It's a great festival.....John Williams (founder member of Solas) was teaching there, along with James Kelly and Randal Bays (Fiddle) and the great Eoin O'Neil (Bouzouki). They all played at the sessions and Ceilidhs and it was all fantastic.
Just a small festival right now, but it's growing - a couple of hundred people there this year.
I heard that John McCusker wrote the tune while travelling on the Ferry back to the US mainland one time after playing at the festival.....
# Posted on August 6th 2004 by Paul Godfray
Oh yeah, and Catherine McEvoy was teaching the flute
# Posted on August 6th 2004 by Paul Godfray
Leaving Friday Habror by car
In 2003 I was staying with a friend in Seattle, my first big trip to the USA, and during my visit we drove a couple of other friends up to the Friday Harbour Festival, to meet the ferry. On the way they practised tunes in the back of the car, we all chatted, and I fell asleep!
On the drive back, just two of us left in the quiet car, that pleasant feeling of tiredness and satisfaction, the sun dipping low in the sky, when words are no longer necessary for communication.
Three years later we're married. This tune will always remind me of that drive.
# Posted on April 25th 2006 by Martin Milner
Downloadable movie
The Kerrywhistle site has a fantastic movie of John playing this tune with Michael McGoldrick and Phil Cunningham.
http://www.kerrywhistle.com/dl.php?group=11
It's set #3.
# Posted on July 15th 2006 by jdicarlo