Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 10th 2006 by The Merry Highlander.
This tune has been added to 61 tunebooks.
Also known as Drunken Sailor.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Drunken Sailor, The
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
|: G2 BG| dG BG | AA AA | FA FD | G2 BG| dG BG | AA FA | G4 :|
|: Bd dB | ce eG | Bd dG | cA AG | Bd dG | ce e2 | d2 ef | g4 :|
|: g3 f | e3 d | dB BG | AG G2 | Bd dG | ce e2 | d2 ef | g4 :|
March
This march is from the collection of Samuel P Bayard taken from fifers and fiddlers... this arrangement is specific to one fifer who I will list later... Im at work and don't have his name.
This tune served as marcjh for fife but was also fiddled for dancing or just plain fun... It is not always in 3 parts and arrangements of the melody vary greatly.
The second part is obviously from "Buttered Peas/Stumpie" etc.
The name is interesting but seems to be a name used for the tune back in the 1800s (or before) in the USA. (allegheny Highland region.)
The first part of the tune shows some characteristics of "pipe" tunes... Like a lot of American tunes from the region I speak of it is no doubt from the "old country", but mysterious in that it doesn't share the "old country "name or arrangement. Bayard supposes that some tunes with these characteristics could be earlier "preservations" of how tunes once were or just American reinvention... I think that sometimes both are true, but am not into romanticising over things like that. (sort of like those who say the Nova Scotia and Cape Breton music is "more" scottish than Scottish music.) Sometimes true, but not always.
# Posted on November 10th 2006 by The Merry Highlander
Is there an r missing from the title?
# Posted on November 10th 2006 by GaryAMartin
"Dunkin Sailor" ~ ?
I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering...
Dunkin Sailor ???
~ a seaman addicted to donuts?
~ a sailor being keelrowed?
# Posted on November 10th 2006 by ceolachan
Wow!
Wow! How can you have a sailor without the "RRRRRRRRRRR Matey!" DRUNKEN is what it shouldve been and what I probably was when I put that title on!!
# Posted on November 10th 2006 by The Merry Highlander
I actually Googled "dunken sailor" to see if maybe such a thing existed. I got over 50 hits, but they all appeared to be the same typo. There were about 350,000 hits for "druken sailor", so it appears there's about a 1 in 7000 chance of making that mistake.
# Posted on November 10th 2006 by GaryAMartin
MH ~ so edit it already as only you can. You don't need an alternate title, just hit 'edit' on the details page and add the 'r'... There now, then we can remedicate you for the evening...
# Posted on November 11th 2006 by ceolachan
There its edited!
It is now officially the Drunken Sailor... thanks "One Who Gets Dunked on Music" for pointing me to the edit button.
# Posted on November 11th 2006 by The Merry Highlander
Bobby Shaftoe
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5034
Very similar first part to Drunken Sailor first part. The second part of Bobby Shaftoe is used in many American tunes but I cant say Ive come across a "whole" version of Bobby in the USA collections... theres parts of him everywhere though... a leg here... a foot there in many tunes.
# Posted on November 19th 2006 by The Merry Highlander
Mr Shaftoe
All about Bobby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Shafto
# Posted on November 19th 2006 by The Merry Highlander
The Drunken Sailor
Surely this is a hornpipe rather than a polka?
# Posted on January 26th 2007 by oheireamhoin
Re: The Drunken Sailor
Just realised that it is also listed as hornpipe. Some of the recordings, however, feature only the hornpipe, not the polka, Cathal Hayden - Handed Down for example, as well as The Fire Aflame by Molloy, Keane and Ó Floinn.
# Posted on January 26th 2007 by oheireamhoin
Re: The Drunken Sailor
2 different tunes same name. Often happens.
# Posted on January 26th 2007 by Nick Splease