Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on December 18th 2001 by Brad Maloney.
This tune has been added to 608 tunebooks.
Also known as 40 Pound Float, Armagh, The Armagh, Da-da, Death From Above, Forty Pound Float, Forty Pound Floiat, Hiils Of Connemara, Jack Ryan's, John Ryan's, Johnny Ryan's, Keadue, The Keadue, Psycho, Sean Ryan's, Tjum Tjum.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Ryan's
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
dd B/c/d/B/ | AF ED | dd B/c/d/B/ | AF E2 |
dd B/c/d/B/ | AF Ad | fd ec | d2 d2 ||
fd de/f/ | gf ed | fd de/f/ | gf a2 |
fd de/f/ | gf ed | fd ec | d2 d2 ||
Put the beer down & put the fiddle away
This is one of the Titanic tunes, it's really common but I don't know any polka names (or mazurka's either) could someone help me out with the title.
# Posted on December 18th 2001 by Brad Maloney
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I *think* this is called Ryan's polka.
# Posted on December 18th 2001 by Jeremy
I've always heard this one called "John Ryan's"...
Zina
# Posted on December 18th 2001 by Zina Lee
This is a pretty widely played tune, but I'm useless for polka names, thanks for the help.
# Posted on December 18th 2001 by Brad Maloney
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We've always played as "John Ryan's" as well. Not my favourite actually, but everybody loves it and dance. We usually play at the end of a set of polkas. We play this one all together once at the beginning and once at the end, but everyone of us play a small jokish solo instead the ten first notes of the first part (this is to say, the sharp part of the beginning). It's great fun!
# Posted on December 26th 2001 by Rmcordoba
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It's also sometimes known as the Armagh Polka
# Posted on February 5th 2003 by Bannerman
On the Totally Traditional Tin Whistle CD, Various Artists, Josie McDermott plays two polkas. The first is Murphy's and the second is The Keadue polka a.k.a Ryans
# Posted on October 19th 2004 by sjt
"The Keadue" / "Sean Ryan's" / "John Ryan's" / "Ryan's" ~ Polka
K: D Major
dd Bd/B/ | AF AF | dd B/c/d/B/ | AF ED |
dd B/c/d/B/ | AF Ad/e/ | fd ec | d2 d2 |
d2 Bd/B/ | AF A/B/c | d2 B/c/d | AF E/F/E/D/ |
dd B2 | A/B/A/F/ A>e | fd ec | d>A B/c/d/e/ ||
fd- de/f/ | g/a/g/f/ ed/e/ | fd ad/e/ | fd/f/ aa/g/ |
fd d>f | gf e2 | fd e/d/c | d2 de |
f2 fd/f/ | gf ed | fd Ad | fd/f/ a/b/a/g/ |
f/g/f/e/ de/f/ | g>f ea/g/ | f2 e/d/c | d4 ||
# Posted on May 30th 2006 by ceolachan
The previous variations and choices are for 'Flanno91' who'd requested "The Keadue Polka" and who will have since recieved the link to here in their email...
# Posted on May 30th 2006 by ceolachan
From the Fiddler's Companion: “Sean Ryan’s Polka” was coined “Keadue Polka” on Josie McDermott’s recording “Darby’s Farewell” and, as Josie had no name for it, the melody was called by the name of the nearby village.
# Posted on May 31st 2006 by Dow
Sounds like "Hills of Connemara"
# Posted on April 11th 2007 by PittsburghPiper
Ryans Polka
Is there a guitarist out there who doesn't do the 'Dang Dang' chords on the two D notes at the begining of the first, third and fifth bar of this tune? I have yet to meet one.
# Posted on July 14th 2007 by Free Reed
Are the two parts not meant to repeat? I normally hear this tune with repeats in it.
# Posted on July 14th 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
Forty pound float
"Forty pound float" is the name it's known by at the New Zealand sessions I've been to. Some sessions do the solo thing in the A part as well - everything except the couple of Ds played by one person and go around the circle until all have had a turn. Can make for many repeats...
# Posted on September 15th 2007 by JenniK
Oh, and I always fancied going to New Zealand. What a shame.
# Posted on September 17th 2007 by Dow
When I first learned this tune several years ago, I learned it as the Dum Dum Polka.
Sara
# Posted on September 20th 2007 by Celtic Lass
YES! ~ it repeats ~ AABB... "The Dum-Dum Diddle-Liddle Polka"
"The Keadue" / "Sean Ryan's" / "John Ryan's" / "Ryan's" / "Dum Dum" ~ Polka ~ & a few other options for it ~
X: 3
T: Dum-Dum Diddle-Liddle
T: etc...
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|: dd B/c/d/B/ | AF AF | dd B/c/d/B/ | AF ED |
dd B/c/d/B/ | AF Ad/e/ | fd ec |[1 df d2 :|[2 df dd/e/ ||
|: fd de/f/ | g>f ed/e/ | fd Ad | fd/f/ a>g |
fd- de/f/ | g/a/g/f ed/e/ | fd ed/c/ |[1 d2 d>e :|[2 d2 d2 |]
# Posted on February 20th 2008 by ceolachan
The reason for the popularity of the title "Forty Pound Float" in Australia and New Zealand is that this tune appeared under that title in the 1979 publication "Begged Borrowed and Stolen". For details of the contents, go here http://www.celt.com.au/contents_pages/contbbs.html. I suspect that whoever gave it that title was going on memory and mixed it up with the tune that came before it in the famous Planxty set - "The Forty-two Pound Cheque" http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/786.
# Posted on March 12th 2008 by Dow