Key signature: Dminor
Submitted on June 14th 2009 by zoronic.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: John Cheap The Chapman
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmin
|: D2AD FDFd | D2AF ECCE | D2AD FGAF | EcGc ECCE :|
|: DddA FGAF | DddF ECCE |1 DddA FGAF |
EGcG ECCE :|2 Ddfd e^cd=B | cGAF ECCE |
John Cheap
I've known this tune for a number of years and called it John Cheap. All I could find here was a reference to "John Cheap The Chapman" under the comments for:
The West Mabou Reel
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7980
A search of the net found it here as:
John Cheap, the Chapman
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/JOHAN_JOHN.htm
It's in Gm there, but sounds about the same so I logged under
the name John Cheap the Chapman.
There's also references on the net to a book:
John Cheap
The Chapman's Library:
The Scottish Chap Literature Of Last Century,Classified, With Life Of Dougal Graham, Comic And Humorous (1877)
So it seems that Chap Literature refers to books which were sold by traveling pedlar's who were referred to as Chapman.
I assume there's some relationship between the tune and this book.
# Posted on June 14th 2009 by zoronic
Another name for it?
I stumbled onto a very similar, if not the same tune over at:
http://abcnotation.com
The Man with the Money
It's slightly different and in Em so I think post by that
name here - seems to come from O'Neil's #1360
# Posted on October 4th 2009 by zoronic