Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 8th 2007 by Falkbeer.
This tune has been added to 36 tunebooks.
Also known as Sailor's, Sailors, The Sailors.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Sailor's, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
gf | g2G2G2dc | Bdgf gbag | a2A2A2AG | FAd2d2ef |
gfed edcB | cBAG GFED | EGFA GBAc | B2G2G2 :|
dc | Bdgd Bdgd | e2c2c2ed | ^ceae ^ceae | f2d2d2ef |
gfed edcB | cBAG GFED | EGFA GBAc | B2G2G2 :|
Triplicated:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1097
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2168
The version posted at the above URLs (those two being almost identical) is a bit different from this one - in D, and with a bit of jumping around between the octaves. It remains to be judged whether this one gets to stay or not.
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by ragaman
Nah...
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by ceolachan
Yeah, nah.
Sailor's Hornpipe is the name of a particular genre of hornpipe rather than the name of a tune, like Stage Hp is another type.
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by Dow
One thing about this transcription: I'd say this was the more common key for the tune than D.
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by Dow
Yup! ~ Gee!!!
"The Sailor's Hornpipe" is the name of a dance form, sadly also including 'character dance', a stereotype for a dancing sailor. A number of hornpipes picked up the name, along with the alternatives, like "Jacky Tar" & "Jack Tar". It was also a popular performance for the Vaudeville stage, along with tap dance and other stereotypes like the black-face minstrels...
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by ceolachan
You do realize that two neighs from us may set this one in concrete for a digital eternity don't you... Like the Python knights that go Neigh!, or is it Neee? or Knee? or Ni? or Niii? or Nit? or Nnnneee!!! ~ Niegh! I say, varlet, unhand that sailor...
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by ceolachan
Jeremy may well decide to leave it. He's said before that he doesn't mind duplicates in different keys so long as they're common session keys and you're not just changing the key for the sake of it. The thing about the different settings of this one is that the pitch range is so wide that you have to change octaves, so that makes the settings quite different. Yes, it's the same tune, but I wouldn't be heartbroken if this one stayed.
# Posted on March 9th 2007 by Dow
As if either of us would lose sweat over it, eh? It's not as if it's like those floating t**ds of nuovo pop that keep bubbling to the surface from the deep do, the waste products of unappreciated geniuses, mutated, deformed, recycled ~ you know, the Frankenstein syndrome...
Igor, I mean Dow, no, I mean Mark ~ gather me more tune fragments so I can create more monstrosities...
# Posted on March 9th 2007 by ceolachan
Nah
DELETE IT! Only because Jeremy deleted one of my full 2 part submissions.. when only the A part was submitted previously... it doesn't bother me though... I CAN HANDLE IT!
# Posted on March 9th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
Then again...
As mentioned it is in G which seems to be the standard key. Ive never played it in D and probably never will.... unless there's money involved.
# Posted on March 9th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
What about F?
# Posted on March 9th 2007 by ceolachan
If it does go, the notes are preserved in the comments for the earlier submission of this one...
# Posted on March 9th 2007 by ceolachan
There ya go 'c'. Despite your whinging Jeremy has let it stay. I knew he'd have the sense not to listen to you
# Posted on March 9th 2007 by Dow
It's past your bedtime Dow...
# Posted on March 9th 2007 by ceolachan
Your phone's ringing, 'c'. Whatever you do, don't answer it!
# Posted on March 9th 2007 by Dow
Too late, answered... Now I'm in the mood for reading Sylvia Plath...
# Posted on March 9th 2007 by ceolachan
Who are you Falkbeer
in the words of 'Cilla Black' "Who are you and where are you from" Falkbeer.
It's nice to know something about people on the session and sometimes helps in making useful comments. But perhaps you wish to remain anonymouse.
# Posted on March 9th 2007 by hetty
Anon-y-mouse! ~ I like that hetty... I can hear you now doing your Cilla Black imitation... Now give the singing a go will you, so I can carry the laughter for another few minutes...
# Posted on March 10th 2007 by ceolachan
Hey hetty, and falkbeer, do they make their own beer on the Falklands? I haven't seen tried that yet if they do...
# Posted on March 10th 2007 by ceolachan
"DELETE IT! Only because Jeremy deleted one of my full 2 part submissions."
If we're going to go there, Marylander, I could bring up The Pride of Cluinte - or even Paddy's Pigeons (few people would even have noticed it was a version of the Pigeon on the Gate, had I not mentioned it in the comments) - but I choose not to let the bees out of my bonnet.
So I leave the voting to those capable of rational thought.
# Posted on March 11th 2007 by ragaman
"Rational Thought"? ~ care to venture a definition?
# Posted on March 11th 2007 by ceolachan
My definition surely wouldn't count for anything.
# Posted on March 11th 2007 by ragaman