Key signature: Amixolydian
Submitted on July 16th 2002 by Mark Cordova.
This tune has been added to 161 tunebooks.
Also known as The Garden Of Butterflies, Garraí Na Bhfeileoig, Garrai Na Bhfeileoig, Garrai Na Bhfeiloig, Holey Ha'penny, Holey Hapenny, Molly Halpenny, Molly Halpin, Molly McAlpin, Paul Ha'penny, Paul Halfpenny, Pol Ha'Penny, Pol Hal'penny, Pol Halfpenny, Poll Ha'penny, Poll Ha’penny, Poll Hal'penny, Poll Halfpenny, Puff Adder's Stepdance, Radstock Jig.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Poll Ha'Penny
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Amix
(3GAB|=cAAG A2 (3AB=c|(3d=cB (3AGF G2 (3B^cd|ed^cA d^cAG|~A3G A2de|
~f3d ~e3c|d2 (3Bcd efge|aged (3=cBA GB|~A3G A2:|
|:ef|~g3f gfef|g2ga gedg|eaag ~a3g|eaag a2ag|
~f3d ~e3c|d2 (3Bcd efge|aged (3=cBA GB|~A3G A2:|
Good Arrangement
This transcription by Henrick Norbeck Is almost exactly like I play aside from a preferred note here or there. I said exactly which needs a little qualification. I play most of those double eighth notes as dotted eighth and sixteenth.
I wish I could remember the name of the artist who recorded it. It was a tape that some friends brought me from California. The best of Rose ------. If I can find that tape I will correct her name. To me, she didn’t play the piece with the usual bounce that I accord many hornpipes. She played it as smooth as silk. I rather liked her version so I play it smooth to audiences and more traditional at Sessions.
# Posted on July 16th 2002 by Mark Cordova
I remember the name.
Florie Brown out of California recorded it on her greatest hits release. I like receiving local recordings. Who knows - One of these recordings I have could be from one of you.
# Posted on August 9th 2002 by Mark Cordova
Derivative of Poll Ha'penny
This tune is one of several that have evolved from the air:
"Molly McAlpin", collected by Edward Bunting. Vol.1, No 44
"General Collection of Ancient Irish Music", adapted for the pianoforte. published in 1796. No composer credit given but in a bio-sketch I read once, O' Carolan was quoted as saying that he "wished" he had composed it. That suggests that the tune was written before his death in March 1738 more than 54 years before the date of the harpers gathering in 1792.
# Posted on February 17th 2004 by windybaer
Poll Ha'penny
Watch Angelina Carberry and Martin Quinn play this tune: http://www.custysmusic.com/mall/CustysTraditionalMusicShop/angelina_and_martin.htm Superb!
# Posted on September 13th 2005 by slainte
Poll Ha'penny
This tune is listed as "Paul Halfpenny" (pronounced ha'penny of course!) on Bobby Casey's "Taking Flight" LP, but the record company had merely misheard the "usual" name "Poll Hal'penny": I once heard Bobby Casey (at the King & Queen pub in London) himself correct piper Tommy McCarthy who had suggested the tune using the title "Paul ..". The title is listed correctly as "Poll ..." on Casey's "Casey in the cowhouse" cassette (Bellbridge 001).
A fine hornpipe version of tune, known simply as the "Radstock Jig", was collected from fiddler James Higgins in Somerset (England) by Cecil Sharp.
# Posted on March 8th 2006 by pipheath
Isn't Poll Ha'penny a version of The New Century???
I'm confused, it seems so much like THE NEW CENTURY (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2001) Molloy & Keane play on Contentment is Wealth (http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/264) and yet no-one has mentionned it...
Am I imagining things?
Should those titles be included in one another's list of aliases?
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by f.pellerin
Huh? Yes, they're both hornpipes.... No, they;'re different tunes.
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by Miss Lonelyhearts
The tune as I remember it ... oh, and the mode ...
The mode may be me being esoteric or something. Personally, I think it's in Dmix, not Amix. This has to do with whether you think the Cs are generally sharp, and sometimes played natural, or whether, like me, you think the Cs are generally natural, and sometimes played sharp. I don't think (and this is only one of the possible views) that the note the tune ends on is relevant for this purpose, as modal tunes fairly often end on notes other than the 'tonic' or 'final' note of the mode.
Academic rant over.
Here's how I remember this tune - now that I've recovered what it is from Dow's prompt the other day, that is:
X: 1
T: Poll Ha'Penny
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmix
AB | cAAG A2 (3AB^c | d=c AF G2 (3B^cd | ed^cA d^cAG |
ABAG ABde | ~f3d ~e3^c | d2 (3B^cd efge | aged ^cA G=c |
A2 AG A2 :||: ef | ~g3f gfef | g2ga gedg | eaag a2 ag |
eaa^g aba=g | ~f3d ~e3^c | d2 (3B^cd efge | aged ^cA G=c |
A2 AG A2 :|
# Posted on May 31st 2007 by benhall.1
"LH" has summarised Pat Mitchell's comments on this tune: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1263/comments#comment207803
I'm now learning the West Clare version of the tune and will try to post it in a couple of days.
# Posted on August 12th 2007 by slainte
West Clare Version
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7612
# Posted on August 14th 2007 by slainte
recording of Jimmy O'Brien-Moran from Willie Clancy Summer School 2005
http://nicolaslbrown.googlepages.com/track08.mp3
# Posted on January 12th 2008 by WhistlinLeeds
God I love this tune
# Posted on November 14th 2008 by justabloke