Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 2nd 2006 by nicholas.
This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.
Also known as Flower Amang Them A', Flower Among Them All, Flower Amoung Them All, John Fenwick's The Flower Among Them, Sir John Fenwick's The Floo'er Amang Them A', Sir John Fenwick's The Flower Amang Them, Sir John Fenwick's The Flower Amang Them All, Sir John Fenwick's The Flower Among Them All.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Sir John Fenwick's The Flower Amang Them A'
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmaj
G3 A BC|d2 de fg|d2 de fg|ed cB AG|
A2 AB cd|e2 e2 g2|e2 e2 g2|e4 d2|
G2 GA Bc|d2 e2 g2|d2 e2 g2|ed cB AG|
c2 dc BA|B2 cB AG|A2 B2 d2|e4 d2||
g2 G2 B2|g2 G2 B2|g2 G2 g2|ed cB AG|
a2 A2 c2|a2 A2 c2|a2 A2 a2|e4 d2|
g2 G2 B2|g2 G2 B2|g2 G2 g2|ed cB AG|
c2 dc BA|B2 cB AG| A2 B2 d2|e4 d2||
Sir John Fenwick's The Flower Amang Them A'
This is a well-known air in Northumbrian music circles, a moderately-paced listening piece. I don't know whether its origins are in NE England or elsewhere; nor do I know who Sir John Fenwick was, though the name's Northumbrian. It was recorded in the early years of the folk revival by The High Level Ranters and also Horslips; Kathryn Tickell and no doubt others have recorded it since. It's a natural on the harp, and wouldn't be out of place among Carolan's tunes (there are one or two other Northumbrian airs that could just as easily have been Irish, by the sound of them).
# Posted on November 2nd 2006 by nicholas
Sir John Fenwick's The Flower Amang Them A'
The C in the first bar of the sheet music is meant to be high, not low.
# Posted on November 2nd 2006 by nicholas
Yes it's a Northumbrian/Borders tune; see FC: http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/SIR.htm#SIR_JOHN_FENWICK'S_(THE)_FLOWER_AMANG_THEM_ALL.
# Posted on November 3rd 2006 by Dow
The Horslips setting
the Horslips played a version of this on their first album. it was one of the first tunes i thought myself on the whistle and still one of my faves but it goes more like this
X: 1
T: Flower Amoung Them All
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmaj
| D2 DE FG | A2 AB d2 | A2 AB d2 | BA GF ED |
| E2 EF GA | B2 Bc d2 | B2 Bc d2 | B4 A2 |
| D2 DE FG | A2 AB d2 | A2 AB d2 | BA GF EF |
| G2 AG FE | F2 GF ED | E2 F2 A2 | B4 A2 :|
| d2 D2 d2 | d2 D2 d2 | d2 D2 d2 | BA GF ED |
| e2 E2 e2 | e2 E2 e2 | e2 E2 e2 | dc BA Bc |
| d2 D2 d2 | d2 D2 d2 | d2 D2 d2 | BA GF EF |
| G2 AG FE | F2 GF ED | E2 F2 A2 | B4 A2 :|
# Posted on June 30th 2007 by Kevo32A
Sir John Fenwick was a Northumbrian Jacobite nobleman who lived for some of his life at Wallington Hall. Born around 1645, he was executed in 1697 for plotting against King William III.
# Posted on July 2nd 2007 by nicholas