Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on September 23rd 2005 by Ptarmigan.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as Open The Door March.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Open The Door
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
AG|:F2 A2 AF A2|B2 d2 d2 ef|g2 f2 ed e2|df d2 dBAG|
F2 A2 AF A2|B2 d2 d2 ef|g2 f2 ed e2|d4 d4:|
fd f2 fd f2|e2 f2 g4|fd f2 fd f2|ec A2 A4|
fd f2 fd f2|e2 f2 g2 fg|a2 f2 ed e2|d4 d4:|
Open the Door
Another tune from the book 'with Fife and Drum' by Gary Hastings.
This tune is apparently one of the first to be learned by new Fifers.
A March, with a Hornpipe 'bounce' to it, to played at a dandering speed!
# Posted on September 23rd 2005 by Ptarmigan
Tune No. 5, page 89.
A cracking version can be heard on John Kennedy's excellent CD - 'The Girls along the Road':
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display.php/761
# Posted on September 23rd 2005 by Ptarmigan
Open the Door
This is also the first tune on the CD which accompanies Gary's book - Recorded at Dunminning Orange Hall, near Cullybackey, Co. Antrim 2001.
# Posted on September 27th 2005 by Ptarmigan