Key signature: Edorian
Submitted on January 15th 2007 by benhall.1.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Man In The Moon, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Edor
|:d/c/ | BGE EFA | ~B3 d2B | AFD DFA | DFA dfd |
BGE EFA | ~B3 def | edB AdF | FEE E2 :|
|: B | ~e3 edB | def fge | ~d3 dcB |def gbg |
~e3 edB | def gfe | dcB AdF | FEE E2 :|
The Man in the Moon
There's another tune by this name already here. But it isn't remotely the same ...
But this tune is really quite similar to some others that are on here, eg The Hills of Glenorchy.
I've submitted it anyway. Partly, this is because I've been playing this tune for about the last 30 years, and secondly because, having just looked at O'Neill's to see if it's in there, I see that the version there is well nigh identical to the one I play that I have transcribed here.
It's left me wondering if I originally learnt it from someone who got it from O'Neill's or whether (horror!) I actually got it from the dots myself in the first place! (Memory for things like that is going, but fortunately not for the tunes ... yet ...
# Posted on January 15th 2007 by benhall.1
Great tune
Great arrangement benhall.1... The ending dcB AdF | FEE E2 :| is great with that jump from A to d... thats how I end Apples in Winter... which may be another variant...
# Posted on January 16th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
... the ending ...
MH - I end Apples in Winter a bit like that as well, but like so: fdB AdF | FEE E2 ||
I think there are a lot of tunes which seem to be some form of variant of something like this one. I wonder which came first? (I just tried to find out how old this setting is, but I can't get when O'Neill collected it - only that it was in the 1907 publication, and of course it could be a lot older than that.)
# Posted on January 16th 2007 by benhall.1
"quite similar" to (Hills of Glenorchy) ?
"can YOU tell the diference?", in the words of the old ad for Daz (or was it Persil?)
# Posted on January 16th 2007 by domnull
A Rollicking Boy
This Man in the Moon could be one of the rollickers from Tanderagee.
# Posted on January 22nd 2007 by Alancorsini
This site has at least 5 versions of the tune.
# Posted on January 23rd 2007 by slainte