Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on July 3rd 2005 by kiwifolk.
This tune has been added to 5 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Wreck Of The Manuka
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
A |:"D" dAF Ade | f>ff fed |"A" ecA ABc |1 "D" dAF DFA :|2 "D" d>dd def||
|: "G" gdB GBc | "D" dAF DCB, | "A7" A,CE GFE |1 "D" DFA def :|2 "D" D3 z2||
New Zealand tune
I (Mike Moroney) wrote this tune to go behind a poem of the same name which is a humourous recollection of a shipwreck that occured on the South-East coast of the South Island of New Zealand Humourous, because the Manuka went down in totally calm seas, no lives were lost and considerable amounts of contraband washed up on the shore and was quickly assimilated into the community almost under the eyes of the Customs and Excise men who tried to track it down. (Manuka is a native New Zealand tree, leptospermum scoparium.)
# Posted on July 3rd 2005 by kiwifolk
Short
You'll notice the tune is only 4x4 bars, that's the way it fitted the words, but the a and b parts can be doubled (ie 2 repeats) if you like.
# Posted on July 3rd 2005 by kiwifolk