Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on April 21st 2007 by wild rose.
This tune has been added to 19 tunebooks.
Also known as Beltane Time, Tribute To Newfoundland.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Tramps And Hawkers
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Cmaj
C| E2 E D2 C| D E2 C2 A,| G,2 A, C2 D| C3-C2 E|G2 GE FG|
A2 AG2 E| C2 DE DC| A,3-A,2 E| G2 GE FG| A2 AG ED|
C2 DE DC| A,3-A, CD| E2 ED2 C| D E2 C2 A,| G,2 A, C2 D|
C3-C2 E| G2 GE FG| A G2-G2 E| C2 DE DC| A,3-A, CD|
E2 E D2 C| D2 E C2 A,| G,2 A, C2 D| C3-C2 z|
Tramps and Hawkers
This tune, although it's in 3/4 time like a waltz, is usually heard as a song-- Battlefield Band, on their recording "Threads," has a wonderful version of it. If anyone wants to find the words, all one needs to do is type the title into an internet search engine and a bewildering array of different versions will appear!
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by wild rose
Meter
seems more like 6/8 to me,
# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by muspc
Definitely, should be 6/8. Did Jimmy MacBeath not used to sing this?
# Posted on April 23rd 2007 by DonaldK
It's waltz-time . 3/4. It's very commonly played for waltzes by Scottish Country Dance Bands. You can play it in 6/8 if you want to , but you'd be hard pushed to sing the song at that tempo. Yes, the late Jimmy McBeath did used to sing it, along with the Corries and just about everyone else in the 1960s/70s.
# Posted on April 23rd 2007 by Kenny
It's a very common song melody. It's used for the sea song "Paddy West" and . Ewan MacColl used it for "England's Motorway", Dylan used it for "I Pity the Poor Immigrant", and I think it's the tune Belle Stewart used for "Berry Fields of Blair". Apparently Richard Fariña also wrote a song to this tune. And it seems that the Irish song Seán Ó Dí also uses a variant of this tune.
# Posted on April 23rd 2007 by GaryAMartin
Correction
"Berry Fields O' Blair" is to the tune of "Nicky Tams".
# Posted on April 23rd 2007 by Kenny
Right you are! I might have figured that out if I had been able to locate the lyrics quickly.
# Posted on April 23rd 2007 by GaryAMartin
The more the meter
my 6/8 reference is to the transcription as is. I think if it were to be in 3/4 then all the note lengths would be doubled.
# Posted on April 23rd 2007 by muspc
I know it as "The Wind That Shakes the Corn" aka "The Homes of Donegal" in waltz time.
# Posted on April 23rd 2007 by vonnieestes
Alternate Name
This piece exists in the Scottish Border fiddle repertoire as "Beltane Time". It is played as a 6/8 March. Beltane is 1st of May and signifies the arrival of summer.
# Posted on April 29th 2007 by wightmana