Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on September 13th 2004 by Dow.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Crucaharan Cross, The
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
B/A/|Gd Bd|G>A Ge|dB B/A/G/A/|BA AB/A/|
Gd Bd|G>A Ge|dB AB/A/|G2 G:|
|:d|e>d eg|G>A Ge|dB B/A/G/A/|BA AB/A/|
Gd Bd|G>A Ge|dB AB/A/|G2 G:|
Crucaharan Cross
This was one of the first Irish tunes I learnt. It's a duple time march, so it should be transcribed in 2/4 or 2/2 really, but I find that marches are too easy to confuse with polkas when they are written in 2/4, so I've made do with 4/4.
See? The Irish have dag too like the English, they just won't admit it.
# Posted on September 13th 2004 by Dow
2/4
This makes a lot more sense written out in 2/4 time so I've changed the time signature accordingly.
# Posted on September 13th 2004 by Jeremy
Okay J. It looks much more acceptable. I hope you won't change my English daggy marches to 2/4 - they won't look morrisy enough
# Posted on September 13th 2004 by Dow
Yeah Dow, but we used to play this number for the polka sets...
# Posted on September 13th 2004 by ceolachan
It was a slightly different setting if I remember right, just slightly. I'll see if I can find it...
# Posted on September 13th 2004 by ceolachan
Cruchan Cross
My mother (Rose O'Connor) playes this and says she got it from the playing of Michael Coleman
# Posted on September 18th 2004 by Peter O'Connor
Crucaharan Cross - slightly different:
K: Gmaj
B/A/|Gd Bd|G>F Ge|dB B/A/G/A/|BA AB/A/|
Gd Bd|G>F Ge|dB AB/A/|G3:|
|:d|e>d e/f/g|G>F Ge|dB B/A/G/A/|1 BA Ad|
ee/d/ e/f/g|G>F Ge|dB AB/A/|G3:|
2 BA AB/A/|Gd Bd|G>F Ge|dB AB/A/|G3||
As promised - I've also found it played in the keys of A and D...
# Posted on October 28th 2004 by ceolachan
How do you pronounce crucaharan? I've been playing this tune for decades and never knew how to pronounce it.
# Posted on April 8th 2005 by Bob himself