Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 2nd 2005 by Ptarmigan.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as Steampacket.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Flowery Mountains
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
BGG/G/G AGFG|AGG/G/G A2dc|BGG/G/G AGFD|EFFG ABcA|
BGG/G/G AGFG|AGG/G/G A2dc|BGG/G/G AGFD|EFFG ABcA||
dgg/g/g agfe|dgg/g/g fdcA|dgg/g/g agfe|d^cde fdcA|
dgg/g/g agfg|abag fefg|afge fde^c|d/d/deg fdcA||
Flowery Mountains?
OK guys - whose the fastest gun in the West? Who can put the common name on this well known reel - first?
It is on Tommy McMahon & Bernard O'Sullivan's LP.
# Posted on December 2nd 2005 by Ptarmigan
Limestone Rock? But the B part is different
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by Donough
Did 'Darach De Bruin' not compose the Limestone Rock, Donough?
Sorry, wrong c at the end of the 4th bar, of 2nd part, should have written it like this:
dgg/g/g agfe|dgg/g/g fdcA|dgg/g/g agfe|d^cde fd=cA|
dgg/g/g agfg|abag fefg|afge fde^c|d/d/deg fdcA||
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by Ptarmigan
Duplicated
Funny, you two don't know this is a very popular tune called The Steampacket: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/690
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by slainte
Slainte - yes, but as Donough points out, the A-part has something of The Limestone Rock about it. It took me until the B-part to recognise it as The Steampacket. It's amazing how much difference a few notes can make.
Anyway, the notes may be the same, but they've got different names, so they're different tunes. Identical twins look the same, but they're not the same person.
# Posted on December 4th 2005 by ragaman
I think this is just a setting of the Steampacket, and that the name has nothing to do with whether it's a different tune or not.
# Posted on December 4th 2005 by Dow
Yes. I still believe this is just one of many versions of the Steampacket. Liam Kelly recorded a version similar to this on one of Dervish's albums.
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by slainte