Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on October 31st 2004 by banjaxbanjo.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Also known as Dunga & The Badger.
X: 1
T: Dunga & The Badger
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emin
|:E3F GABd|~e3d edBG|AcBG A2 (3ccA|BGAF GEDB,|
B,E(3EGE EFGA|Beed edBA|GE~E2 FD~D2|1 A,B,DF EE(3FEE:|2 A,B,DF E2gf||
|:eB~B2 dBeB|(3BcB dB eBdB|cABG AFGE|DEFG ABcd|
eB~B2 cBdB|eBdB cdef|~g3a gedB|1 ABdf e2gf:|2 ABdf edBA||
Brian Morrissey
Learn't this tune by ear from a live recording from the belltable in Limerick. I great banjo player by the name of Brian Morrissey composed it and was playing that night. Hope you don't mind me posting it.
# Posted on October 31st 2004 by banjaxbanjo
So does Brian have a name for it, or should we call it Brian Morrissey's?
# Posted on November 1st 2004 by Will CPT
Name of this tune
Brian Morrissey here...delighted to see my tune posted on the site. My thanks to banjaxbanjo...what's your real name? The tune is actually called "Dunga & the Badger" and I recorded it with a group called GANAM on the 12th St. Patrick's Day Celebration CD, on the Magnetic Music label a few years ago. The name of the tune refers to a button accordion player called Pat "Red" Sullivan from Cork, also known as the Badger, and his encounters with Dunga, a boxer dog that lived in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Dunga is no longer with us but he lives on in the tune!
# Posted on November 12th 2004 by Brian Morrissey
Hi Brian - thanks for the tune title, and the story behind it. Now I'd like to know how Pat "Red" "Badger" earned his string of nicknames.
# Posted on November 12th 2004 by Will CPT
Set with 'Dunga & the Badger' in it...
Just a suggestion...I play the tune with a Donegal reel after it called the Miser's Purse in A major. I learned it from the playing of Tommy Peoples. That's the way we recorded it on the CD as mentioned above.
# Posted on January 11th 2005 by Brian Morrissey