Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on July 6th 2005 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 38 tunebooks.
Also known as Da Greenland Man's Tune, Da Greenlandman's Tune, Da Greenlandmans Tune, The Greenland Highland, The Greenland Man's Fling, The Greenland Man's Highland Fling, The Greenland Man's Highland, Greenland Mans Tune, The Greenlandman's Tune.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Greenland Man's Tune, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Amaj
|:d>B c>A (3BcB E2|F>G A>G F<D D2|
d>B c>A (3BcB E2|G>A B>G A2A2:|
|:B2 B>c d2 d>B|A2 A>F D>E F<A|
B2 B>c d2 d>B|1A>F (3FED E4:|2A>F (3FED E3 c||
The Greenland Man's Tune
From The Boys Of The Lough.It's not really a hornpipe. I think that the mode is D lydian,but that's only a guess. A haunting tune.
# Posted on July 6th 2005 by dafydd
"The Greenland Highland"
R: highland fling
K: E minor
|: E>c |
d>Bc>A (3BcB E>F | D>FA>G F*DD>c |
d>Bc>A (3BcB E2 | G>A B*G E2- :|
|: E>A |
B>^AB>c (3ded (3dcB | A*^GA>F D>EF*A |
1 B2 B>c d2 d>B | A*Fd>F E2- :|
2 d>fc>e B>^AB>c | (3dcB A*F E2 ||
* = "SNAP!"
# Posted on July 17th 2005 by ceolachan
Da Greenlandmans Tune - jig version
With the above spelling - this one seems to be notated as jig. (and some of the short notes should really be "snaps") (See the version on Blazin Fiddles - Fire-ON)
T:da Greenlandmans Tune
M:6/8
K:A
d2B c2A | BcB E3 | F2G A2G | FD2 D3 | \
d2B c2A | BcB E3 | G2A BG2 | A3 A3 :|
|: B2B B2c | d2d d2B | A2A A2F | D2E FA2 | \
B2B B2c | d2d d2B | AF2 FD2 | E3 E2:|
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by spindizzy
Strathspey / highland fling
My suspicion is, carrying from what I'd offered earlier, that with the melody and the 'snap' (F D2 / B G2) its origins are as a strathspey / highland fling...
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by ceolachan
Type of Tune
Actually, it's none of the above. It's never been danced to so its what Shetlanders call a "listening tune." During Shetland's whaling days, the tune was supposedly brought back to Shetland from Greenland where it was learned from one of the Greenland "natives." The words were supposedly in Yakki.
# Posted on September 17th 2008 by MHCrawf
yaki yaki yakiii from a yakki dog?
did you mean Yup'ik? or a pigin?
Ish dish shome shtory shomeone told you wunshe? a drunken Shetland shailor pøhåpsh?
# Posted on June 22nd 2009 by birlibirdie
The first bar vaguely reminds me of a medieval tune (13th c?) I heard once (wunsh?)
It also reminds me of a Munster slide, kind of.
# Posted on June 22nd 2009 by birlibirdie
Da Greenland Man's Tune
According to "Da Mirrie Dancers" - "A Book Of Shetland Fiddle Tunes" - edited by Tom Anderson and Tom Georgeson for the Shetland Folk Society and printed in 1970 :
"Da Greenland Man's Tune" - Traditional. Collected in Unst from J.Stickle by P. Shuldham-Shaw".
# Posted on October 20th 2011 by Kenny
"The Greenland Highland" - nothing stopping me from stepping it out
Though I screwed up on the key above, obviously in one of my semi-conscious moments and before the '<' could work here...
X: 4
T: The Greenland Highland
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: highland fling
K: EDor
|: E>c |\
d>Bc>A (3BcB E>F | D>FA>G F<DD>c |
d>Bc>A (3BcB E2 | G>AB<G E2- :|
|: E>A |\
B>^AB>c (3ded (3dcB | A<^GA>F D>EF<A |
[1 B2 B>c d2 d>B | A<Fd>F E2- :|
[2 d>fc>e B>^AB>c | (3dcB A<F E2 |]
# Posted on October 20th 2011 by ceolachan