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The Poor Man's Fortune

reel

Key signature: Gmixolydian

Submitted on July 18th 2008 by jlfinkels.

This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.

Also known as The Poor Man's Fortune.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Poor Man's Fortune, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmix
FDEF D2 de | fdec dcAB | c2 dc BG G2 | EDCD EAGE |
FDEF D2 de | fdec dcAB | c2 dc BG G2 |1 EDCE DBAG :|2 EDCE DGAB ||
|:c2 ge aege | Gceg agfe | d2 ad bdad | Adfa bafd |
c2 ge aege | afge defg | afge fded |1 c2 dc BABB :|2 c3 d cBAG|

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The Poor Man's Fortune sheetmusic
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This is in D mixolydian, not G major.

# Posted on July 18th 2008 by jakep

Credit where it's due...

Composed by.....

# Posted on July 18th 2008 by Kenny

Link...

Links to the recording, if you put "The" in the title.

# Posted on July 18th 2008 by Kenny

Paddy O'Brien

Composed by Paddy O'Brien (Co. Offaly), according to www.irishtune.info

# Posted on July 18th 2008 by Henk Bos

Oops and Thanks!

I got this tunes from Martin Hayes but he wasn't sure of the composer. Sorry for messing up the title and key. I'm not sure what mixolydian mode is but knew there was an F# in it.

Thanks!

# Posted on July 19th 2008 by jlfinkels

Some Corrections

After slowing down the recording Martin Hayes made in class at Swannanoa last week, I detected a few errors in the ABC as originally submitted. The most notable differences are that the C's in measure 2 are replaced by C#'s, and the E's in measure 2 of the B part are replaced by C's. Here is my ABC for the "The Poor Man's Fortune":

X: 1
T: Poor Man's Fortune, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmix
FDEF D2 de | fde^c d^cAB | c2 dc BG G2 | EDCD EAGE |
FDEF D2 de | fde^c d^cAB | c2 dc BG G2 |1 EDCE D2 AG :|2 EDCE DGAB ||
|:c2 gc acgc | Gceg agfe | d2 ad bdad | Adfa bafd |
c2 gc acgc | afge defg | afge fded |1 c3 d cBAB :|2 c3 d cBAG||

# Posted on July 22nd 2008 by dbritton

Why did you change the key to Gmix?

# Posted on July 26th 2008 by jakep

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