Johnny Cope

hornpipe

Key signature: Adorian

Submitted on September 13th 2005 by dafydd.

This tune has been added to 35 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Stone's Throw by Michael Cooney
• An Fhidil, Sraith 2 by Sean Keane, Kevin Burke, Paddy Glackin And Seamus Creagh
• Bosca Bideach by Micheal Darby O Fatharta
• Came The Dawn by Seamus Creagh
• Ceol Cill Na Martra by Connie O'Connell
• Cold Blow And The Rainy Night by Planxty
• Fortune's Road by Back Of The Moon
• Helter's Celtic by Ashley MacIsaac
• May Morning Dew by Mick O' Brien
• Music From The Edge Of The World by Cran
• My Roots Are Showing by Natalie MacMaster
• Noel Hill And Tony Linnane by Noel Hill And Tony Linnane
• Reed Only by Tim Collins/Brian McNamara
• Strange But True... by Takuji Tamura And Yukio Kashiwagi
• The Best Of Irish Piping by Seamus Ennis
• The Gallowglass Ceili Band by The Gallowglass Ceili Band
• The Humours Of Lisheen by John And Julia Clifford
• The Jolly Tinker by Kane O'Rourke
• The Little Country by Charles De Lint
• The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Master by Padraig O'Keefe
• Traditional Irish Flute Music by Fintan Vallely

X: 1
T: Johnny Cope
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Ador
|:A2 AB A2d2|efed B3A|GFGA BAGB|dBGB d3B|
A2 AB A2d2|efed B2d2|(3efg fa gedB|1BAAB AGEG:|2BAGB A3B||
cBcd c2G2|cdef gedB|cBAc (3eee ed|cdec dBGB|
cBcd c2G2|cdef gede|ea (3aaa (3efg ed|BAGB A3B:|
(3ccc cB ABAG|ABcd (3efg dc|BG (3GGG dG (3GGG|cdec dBGB|
c2 cB ABAG|ABcd (3efg ed|ea (3aaa (3efg ed|1BAGB A3B:|2BAGB A2 Bd||
e2a2 a2 ga|b2a2g2 ed|eg (3ggg gaba|gabg aged|
e2a2a2 ga|b2a2 g3 e|(3ddd ef gedB|BAGB A2 Bd:||
e2 (3eee fedB|e2 (3eee fedB|d2 de dBAB|defd edBd|
e2 (3eee fedB|ea (3aaa efed|Bdef gedB|1BAAB A2 Bd:|2BAAB A2 fg||
a2e2 efge|a2e2e2 ag|f2d2 d2 de|f2d2 d4|
a2e2 efge|a2e2e2 ed|Bdef gedB|1BAGB A4:|2BAGB AGEG||

Johnny Cope

Source: Planxty "Cold Blow And The Rainy Night"
I'll quote from the sleevenotes.

"Johnny Cope" combines the well known song and hornpipe of the same name.How it arrived in Kerry-where it was learned from the great fiddler Padric O'Keefe will never be known but in its travels from Scotland it picked up four more parts and was collected by Seamus Ennis as a six part hornpipe."

# Posted on September 13th 2005 by dafydd

Great tune. I know it from the Noel Hill and Tony Linnane album, on which Noel Hill uses a solo break to play this tune. You say you transcribed this from "Cold Blow and the Rainy Night;" did Noel Hill play on this album? I know he played on one or two of them. I was wondering if he also played it with Planxty.

# Posted on September 14th 2005 by smw

No, he's not on the album.It was released in 1974 and the band was Liam O'Flynn,Andy Irvine,Christy Moore and Johnny Moynihan.They sing the song first and then Liam O'Flynn plays it solo.

# Posted on September 14th 2005 by dafydd

Johnny Cope

I have submitted another version of Johnny Cope as an addition to the previous version
www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2327/comments
My contribution is more closely linked to that version than the one here.

# Posted on September 18th 2005 by hetty

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2327

# Posted on October 10th 2005 by ceolachan

Johnny Cope

Mick O'Brien also has a beautiful setting of this on his album 'May Morning Dew' (However, the track links to the Polka).

Tim

# Posted on July 9th 2006 by tmcelrea

"May Morning Dew" ~ Mick O' Brien

Submitted on May 6th 2005 by low b flat.
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/1536

~ to add the link... This isn't the only case where a link is not made to the relative tune or recording. Fortunately some folks like yourself Tim make the link here in the comments, and in this case I've just appended the address...

# Posted on July 9th 2006 by ceolachan

Different versions of the song can be got at:

http://www.contemplator.com/scotland/cope.html

# Posted on September 30th 2006 by birlibirdie