Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 27th 2002 by Mark Cordova.
This tune has been added to 58 tunebooks.
Also known as Queen Of The West, Sumner's, The Tosspot.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Queen Of The West, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
uFE|:D>FAF DFA,F|"A"EGAG EGA,G|"D"FAdF "D#dim"GBec|"A"Adfd cAGC|
"D"DFAF DFA,F|"A"EGAG EGA,G|"D"FAdA "A"Ggec|1 "D"d2d2d2 FE:|2 "D"d2d2d2 ucd||
|:"A"ecAc EAce|"D"fdAd FAdf|"G".g2fg "D"efdf|"E"(3edc (3dcB "A" ABcd|
ecAc EAce|"D"fdAd FAdf|"G"gbag "A"fedc|1 "D"d2d2d2 ucd:|2 "D"d2d2d2 uFE||
Off the beaten path
Most people would say that this piece is unusual or rarely known. So if most people are saying that then .... Heck, heck I get confused easily. I learned it from a Tommy Peoples instructional Tape that came with a little book of perhaps 50 tunes.
I bumped into the tune a few years back again. It was played by an old time fiddler at a crisp breakdown speed. He looked me in the eye and bet me that I had never heard the tune before. Well I played it for him with some of those fine dotted eighths and sixtenths. I threw quite a few sigle bowed triplets and I played it at a great hornpipe pace. He just kind of sneered at me and played it again and I quote him "THE RIGHT WAY"
For insanities sake - I posted this tune "the right way" Listen to Natalie McMaster or Peoples if you want to learn it wrong like me. ;)
# Posted on August 27th 2002 by Mark Cordova
Zeke Backus
This one was first published in Ryan's Mammoth Collection in 1883, where it was credited to the minstrel show fiddler Zeke Backus. Brendan McGlinchey recorded a more elaborate setting on his 1970s solo LP. It's popularity as a session tune was revived when Sharon Shannon recorded it. She probably picked it up from Tommy Peoples.
# Posted on April 1st 2009 by blarneystar