Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on December 9th 2005 by Ptarmigan.
This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Seamus McManus
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Amaj
|f2e2c2|A3 BcA|F2A2F2|E4 E/F/G|
A2c2f2|e2c2A2|B3 _B=Bc|B3 dcd|
f2e2c2|A3 BcA|F2A2a2|f3 gaf|
e2c2A2|BF3G2|A3 GAB|1 A3 dcd:|2 A3 EFA||
EA ce cA|EA ce cA|FA df dA|FA df dA|
EA ce cA|EA ce cA|EG Bc Bc|dc BA GF|
EA ce cA|EA ce cA|F2A2a2|f3 gaf|
e2c2A2|BF3G2|A3 GAB|A4 AB|
ce ac' ae|ce ac' ae|df ad' af|df ad' af|
ce ac' ae|ce ac' ae|Be gb ge|Be gb ge|
ce ac' ae|ce ac' ae|d2f2a2|d'4 c'b|
c'2 b2 a2|bf3g2|a3 gab|a6||
Seamus McManus
Seamus & Manus McGuire learned this 'light-hearted' Canadian Waltz from the playing of Joe McIsaac, a Cape Breton fiddler.
Not surprising when you consider the title!
I love playing this Waltz, but the third part is way up there in the 'Gobi Desert', so I stick to just the first 2 parts.
As Clint Eastwood once said - "A man's gotta know his limitations!"
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by Ptarmigan
Related to Seamus O"Brien's Waltz
I notice that the first part of Seamus McManus sounds like the first part of Seamus O'Brien's Waltz. Although no recordings of Seamus O'Brien's Waltz is listed, I believe that the Springfield Missouri fiddler, Art Galbraith recorded it. I probably learned it directly or indirectly from him. Perhaps it is on his album "Dixie Blossoms."
rogmc
# Posted on January 7th 2006 by rogmc
Recordings
Kilfenora Céili Band on the CD titled Live in Lisdoonvarna plays this tune as the first part of The Atlantic (no. 11). This tune is briliant!
They play twice the first half of the second part.
# Posted on March 28th 2008 by Luki