Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on July 19th 2002 by Josh Kane.
This tune has been added to 25 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Take The Bull By The Horns
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|: a2e cee | f2e cBA | a2e cee | fed cBA |
a2e cee | fed cBA | dfd cec | BcB A2B :|
|: A2B cBA | aed cBA | dfd cec | BcB Bcd |
A2B cBA | aed cBA | dfd cec | BcB A3 :|
|: cAA eAA | cAA eAA | dBB fBB | dBB fed |
cAA eAA | cAA eAA | dfd cec | BcB A3 :|
Bull by the Horns
A good old tune, I learned this from a video tape called "From Shore to Shore" where an old-timer box player (name escapes me right now) said he knew the tune when he was younger but stopped playing for a while due to working. Then when he was older the tune came him fresh & took him back to his youth. I've seen this tune mistaken for one of Joannie Madden's Compositions but this tune predates her.
# Posted on July 19th 2002 by B Rad
Great video, Brad. I think his name was Johnny Doherty.
# Posted on July 22nd 2002 by Josh Kane
Johnny Doherty NYC Box player
I can't play the tape right now, cause my VCR is on the fritz - but I think your right. Not the Johnny Doherty of Donegal fame, but the father of Maureen Doherty Macken. Plays box & flute (boehm) I think, but I'm hazy on the details.
# Posted on July 22nd 2002 by B Rad
Tom Doherty
It's the trademark tune of Tom Doherty: he did it with Maureen on the "Rights of Man" Concert CD, and on his Green Linnet record of the same name as the tune, and on the '92 Cork University Traditional Music Festival CD. I've never heard anyone else do it, in fact...
# Posted on November 8th 2003 by JHowley
Tom Doherty playing the tune
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,191
You can here Tom Doherty playing it in this film at around 41 minutes
# Posted on February 10th 2011 by flossie