Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on January 8th 2007 by nigelg.
This tune has been added to 4 tunebooks.
Also known as Johnny Ward's Highland Fling.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Johnny Ward's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: strathspey
K: Gmaj
d2 B>G d>GB>G | (3ABA F>A D3 D | D2 B>G d>GB>d |g>bf>a e>gf>e |
d2 B>G d>GB>G | (3ABA F>A D3 D |D2 B>G d>GB>d | g>bf>a e>gf>e ||
e<AB>A e>gf>e |d2 B>G d>GB>d | e<AB>A e>af>f | (3gag (3fgf e>gf>a |
e<AB>A e>gf>e | d2 B>G d>GB>d | e<AB>A e>af>f |(3gag (3fgf e>gf>e |]
Johnny Ward's
Another highland from Vincent Campbell from the album 'The Brass Fiddle'. This is the first in the set, followed by
"Paddy Bartley's" http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6606
From the sleeve notes: "Johnny Ward was a fiddler from Gageen Hill in the Croaghs, a mountainour region of great beauty between Glenties and Ballybofey"
# Posted on January 8th 2007 by nigelg
This appears on Fisherstreet's "Out In The Night" as a reel in D, along with the Beauty Spot, which they also transpose down to Amix from it's original key of Dmix:
X: 1
T: Johnny Ward's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
S: Fisherstreet
K: Dmaj
A2FD ADFD|E2CE A,3G|A2FD A,DFA|1 dfce BdcB:|2 dfce Bdce||
|:BE~E2 BdcB|A2FD A,DFA|BE~E2 Bdce|1 dfce Bdce:|2 dfce BdcB||
Transposed into G, that becomes:
X: 1
T: Johnny Ward's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
S: Fisherstreet (transposed)
K: Gmaj
d2BG dGBG|A2FA D3c|d2BG DGBd|1gbfa egfe:|2 gbfa egfa||
|:eA~A2 egfe|d2BG DGBd|eA~A2 egfa|1 gbfa egfa:|2 gbfa egfe||
# Posted on May 2nd 2008 by Dow