Haul Away The Hawser

polka

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on August 14th 2008 by nicholas.

This tune has been added to 5 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Trip To The Lakes: Traditional Cumbrian Tunes by The Boat Band
• Fiddles In The Cowshed by Lakeland Fiddlers

X: 1
T: Haul Away The Hawser
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
|: G2 B>G | Bd dB | c2 e>c | eg g2 |
G2 B>G | Bd dg | ed cB | A2 G2 :|
g2 b>g | af ed | ed ef | gd Bd |
g2 b>g | af ed | ed ef | g2 g>a |
bg af | gf ed | ed ef | gd Bd |
c2 e>c | Bd ge | dB GB | A2 G2 ||

Haul Away The Hawser

A 2/4 tune which I got from The Boat Band's album "A Trip To The Lakes", a selection of tunes known to have been played in the English Lake District in the recent or distant past by local musicians. Like various other two-four tunes from Northern England it seems to go a trifle slower and more relaxed than a Kerry polka - though I dare say, tweaked up, this one could work as such.

# Posted on August 14th 2008 by nicholas