ARTHUR STEVENS THE BLACKSMITH. American, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard. AA'BB. Source for notated version: Kerry Blech (Seattle, Washington) [Phillips]. Phillips (Traditional American Foddle Tunes), Vol. 2, 1995; pg. 180.
BLACKSMITH, THE [1]. Irish, Jig. D Mixolydian. Standard. AAB. Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 262, pg. 150.
BLACKSMITH, THE [2]. Old-Time, March? D Major. Standard. AABB. "Tunes constructed like this one, with the second part consisting almost entirely of the first part repeated an octave higher, are not often encountered in the repertories of American country fiddlers" (Bayard). Source for notated version: Mrs. Sarah Armstrong, (near) Derry, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1943 [Bayard]. Bayard (Hill Country Tunes), 1944; No. 69.
BLACKSMITH, THE [3]. Scottish, Reel. Tradition 2118, Jim MacLeod & His Band - "Scottish Dances: Jigs, Waltzes and Reels" (1979).
BLACKSMITH, THE [4]. AKA and see "(Le) Forgeron."
BLACKSMITH AND HIS SON, THE. Irish, Air (2/4 time). A Dorian. Standard. One part. "A jocular song was sung to this" (Joyce). Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 486, pg. 269.
BLACKSMITH'S DAUGHTER. AKA and see "The Blacksmith's Reel" [1], "Green Garters."
BLACKSMITH'S FANCY, THE. Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Donegal. This reel was recorded by Donegal fiddlers John Doherty (c. 1895-1980) and Frank Cassidy (d. 1961) playing duet for the Irish Folklore Commission.
BLACKSMITH'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Bristol Hornpipe," "Rickett's Hornpipe." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard. AABB. The tune is a form of "Rickett's Hornpipe." Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 103, pgs. 52-53.
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T:Rickett's Hornpipe
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BLACKSMITH'S QUADRILLE. American, Quadrille (6/8 time). USA, Arizona. D Major ('A' part) & G Major ('B' part). Standard. AABB'. Ruth (Pioneer Western Folk Tunes), 1948; No. 48, pg. 17.
T:Blacksmiths Quadrille
L:1/8
M:6/8
S: Viola "Mom" Ruth - Pioneer Western Folk Tunes (1948)
K:D
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BLACKSMITH'S REEL [1] (Ríl an Ghabha). AKA and see "Blacksmith's Daughter," "Green Garters." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard. AABB. A variant of "The Green Garters." See also the related "Leslie's Reel." Source for notated version: piper Joseph Walsh/Saosamh Breathnach (Ireland) [Breathnach]. Breathnach (CRE I), 1963; No. 73, pg. 34. Seamus Creagh and Aidan Coffey - "Traditional Music of Ireland." Green Linnet SIF 1079, Buttons and Bows (Jackie Daly, Seamus and Manus McGuire) - "First Month of Summer."
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T:Blacksmith's Daughter
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L:1/8
Q:224
R:reel
B:CRE 1, No.73, "Ril an Ghabha"
N:Breathnach calls it a variant of "The Green Garters" from O'Neill's DMI
N:Possibly a variant of "Leslie's Reel"
D:Seamus Creagh and Aidan Coffey, Traditional Music of Ireland
Z:Lorna LaVerne
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BLACKSMITH'S REEL [2] (Reel du Forgeron). French-Canadian, Reel. Folkways FG 3531, "Old Time Fiddle Tunes played by Jean Carignan" (1968).
BOVAGLIE'S PLAID. AKA "Roualeyn's Plaid." Scottish, "Pastoral" or Slow Air (4/4 time). A Major. Standard. AAB. From the Logie Collection, composed by J. Scott Skinner. The 'Roualeyn' of the alternate title (Skinner's original title for the tune) refers to Roualeyn Gordon Cumming, a famous local eccentric character of Fort Augustus in the 19th century. Neil (1991) tells several charming anecdotes of this man who was a big game hunter in Africa for a time, and who dressed in full Highland kit when he came to town, though donned only in shirt and stockings in the country on hot days. A congenial and well mannered man, he was sometimes to be found in the woods of Glenmoriston where he sought hazel to make walking sticks, when he was not puttering about his showroom where he housed his trophies. He was a great friend of the huge village blacksmith, Donald Cumming, who himself was blessed with "a high intellect and warm personality. They both died within a short period of one another and Fort Augustus lost two of its outstanding characters" (Neil, 1991). The title 'Bovaglie's Plaid' is from a description of Queen Victoria's of a location on the farm or place of Bovaglie, thought to be near Crathie in Deeside, in which a belt of trees seemed to her to stand in the shape of a plaid. The melody was one of the tunes recorded as played by the composer on tour in 1921, late in his life, in a set romantically entitled "Spey's Fury's." Caoimhin Mac Aoidh points out the the first few bars of "Bovaglie's" overlap with "The Lowlands of Holland." Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 24. Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 85, pg. 115. Skinner (The Scottish Violinist), pg. 36. Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Éireann CL 13, "Tommy Peoples." Rounder 7020, Alex Francis MacKay - " A Lifelong Home - An Dachaidh Dha Mo Shaoghal." SG155, Alasdair Fraser - "The Road North." Natalie MacMaster - "Road to the Isles."
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M:C
L:1/8
C:J Scott Skinner
Q:100
Z:transcribed by John Erdman
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BOYNE HUNT (Seilg na Boinne). AKA and see "Highland Skip," "Molly Maguire" [2], "Molly McGuire's Reel," "The Perth Hunt," "The Perthshire Hunt," "The Sailor's Trip to Liverpool," "Thomas a cartha," "Tom the Blacksmith." Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Donegal. D Major (Cole, Mallinson, O'Neill): D Mixolydian/Major (Mitchell). Standard. AB (Mallinson, Taylor): ABB' (O'Neill/Krassen): AABB (Cole): ABC (O'Neill/1850 & 1001): ABCDEF (Mitchell). The tune was originally a Scottish composition called "The Perthshire Hunt," commissioned for the Perthshire Hunt Ball. An early recording was made by the famous piper Patsy Tuohey on cylinder around 1910. See note also for "Twisting of the Rope" which mentions this tune. See also the related "The Tea Reel." Sources for notated versions: piper Willie Clancy (1918-1973, Miltown Malbay, west Clare) [Mitchell]; set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, mid-1980's [Taylor]; Joyce remembered the tune from his childhood in Limerick, c. 1840's. Cole (1001 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 6. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 85, pg. 45 (appears as untitled reel). Mallinson (Essential), 1995; No. 4, pg. 2. Mitchell (Dance Music of Willie Clancy), 1993; No. 142, pgs. 112-113. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 103. O'Neill (1850), 1903/1979; No. 1241, pg. 233. O'Neill (1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No. 514, pg. 97. Taylor (Music for the Sets: Yellow Book), 1995; pg. 30. Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Éireann CL 13, "Tommy Peoples" (1976). Gael-Linn CEF060, "Paddy Glackin." Paddy Keenan & Paddy Glackin - "Doublin'". Michael Cooney & Joe Burke - "Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part."
T:Boyne Hunt
R:Reel
L:1/8
M:C
S:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music
K:D
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{f}a3f gedB|ABde fd d2|faaf a2 af|gfga beeg|fgfe dedB|ABde fedB|
BOYS OF THE LAKE [2]. AKA and see "The Merry Blacksmith," "Ike Forrester's Reel," "Paddy on the Railway," "The Corkonian," "The Peeler's Jacket," "The Police Jacket," "The Railroad," "The Shepherd in/on the Gap," "The Peeler's/Policeman's Reel." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AB. Source for notated version: obtained "about 20 years ago from Mr. M. Flanagoan of the Hibernian Military School, Phoenix Park, Dublin, a good player on the Union pipes. Mr. Flanagan picked them up in North Kildare" [Joyce]. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music), 1909; No. 360, pg. 166.
T:Boys of the Lake [2]
T:Merry Blacksmith
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BRISTOL HORNPIPE, THE. AKA and see "Blacksmith's Hornpipe," "Slayley Bridge Hornpipe." English, Scottish; Hornpipe. England, Northumberland. A Major (Honeyman, Kennedy, Kerr, Raven): G Major (Hall & Stafford). Standard. AB (Kerr): AABB. The name Bristol (Glouchestershire) is an Anglo-Saxon name, given as Bricgstow in 1063, 'the meeting place by the bridge.' It was an important Saxon town, having its own mint, and later became England's second port. Eleanor of Brittany, the granddaughter of Henry II, was confined by king John in 1203 at various castles in the area and remained a prisoner for thirty-nine years until her death at Bristol Castle. Queen Elizabeth I visited Bristol in 1574 and remarked that the Church of St. Mary's was the "fairest and goodliest" church in the land. Hall & Stafford (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1974; pg. 45. Honeyman (Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor), 1898; pg. 44. Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune Book), Vol. 1, 1951; No. 24; pg. 12. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 1; No. 18, pg. 44. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 175.
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L:1/8
M:C
S:Honeyman - Tutor
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COLLIN'S REEL. AKA and see "The Merry Blacksmith," "Emminence Breakdown," "Corkonian Reel," "Peeler's Jacket," "Paddy on the Railroad." The tune was recorded under this title by William Houchens, a fiddler/violinist from Ohio, for the Starr Recording Company in the 1920's.
CORKONIAN. AKA and see "The Boys of the Lake," "Collins Reel," "Emminence Breakdown," "Ike Forrester's Reel," "Merry Blacksmith," "Paddy on the Railroad," "Peeler's Jacket," "The Police Jacket," "The Shepherd in the Gap," "The Policeman's/Peeler's Reel," "The Railroad." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AABB. Cole (1001 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 20.
DÁ bhFAIGHINN MO ROGHA. Irish, Air or Polka. C Major. Standard. One part. The song tells of a woman who would not marry the blacksmith, tailor or fisherman, but instead selects the fiddle player--"se an bheileadoir is fearr liom." Cranitch (Irish Fiddle Book), 1996; pg. 46.
DEVILS IN DUBLIN. AKA- "The Devils o' Dublin." AKA and see "Merry Blacksmith," "Mist on the Loch," "Paddy on the Railroad." Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Sligo. D Major. Standard. AABB. A variant of the well-known "Merry Blacksmith." The second tune in Michael Coleman's 1921 pair of tunes recorded under the single title "Boys of the Lough." Irish flute player Seamus Tansey has also recorded the tune under the "Devils" title. In Cape Breton the tune is known as "Mist on the Loch." Source for notated version: fiddler Peter Horan (b. 1926, Kilavil, Co. Sligo) [Flaherty]. Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; pg. 67. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; Vol. 3, No. 9. Green Linnet GLCD 1200, Lunasa - "Otherworld" (1999. Appears as "Devils of Dublin"). IRC Records, Michael Coleman - "The Musical Glory of Old Sligo" (1967).
EMMINENCE BREAKDOWN. AKA and see "The Peelers Jacket," "Collin's Reel," "Merry Blacksmith," "Paddy on the Railroad," "Corkonian Reel."
FISHER'S FANCY. Irish, Reel. A reel named by O'Neill (1913) in a tale of piper John Hicks, a Kildare piper who emigrated to America around 1850. Hicks made his living playing in cities around the country and one season, while playing in Chicago, he was invited to a pub by a fiddler named Patsy Kilroy. The piper played so well that Kilroy became jealous and regretted his sponsorship of the piper. They were playing "Fisher's Fancy" together "when in comes Bill Thompson, the local blacksmith and farrier. Bill, who was as fine a specimen of the Irish peasant as I ever laid eyes on, listened patiently while the musicians played a few rounds of the tune. Placing his brawny hand on Kilroy's shoulder, he softly said, 'Put up that washstaff avic and let the man play the pipes."
FISHER'S HORNPIPE (Crannciuil {Ui} Fishuir). AKA "The Fisher's," "Fisherman's Hornpipe." AKA and see "The Blacksmith's Hornpipe" (Ireland {Joyce}), "China Orange Hornpipe," "Egg Hornpipe," "Fisherman's Lilt," "The First of May," "Kelly's Hornpipe" [3], "Lord Howe's Hornpipe," "O'Dwyer's Hornpipe," "Peckhover Walk Hornpipe," "Roger MacMum" (Irish), "Sailor's Hornpipe," "Wigs on the Green" (Ireland {Roche}). English, Irish, Scottish, Shetlands, Canadian, Old-Time, Texas Style, Bluegrass; Hornpipe, Reel, Breakdown. USA & Canada, widely known. D Major {most modern versions}: G Major {often in the Galax, Va. area, also Bayard's version collected in Prince Edward Island}: A Major (Mississippi fiddler Charles Long): F Major {Burchenal, Cranford, Honeyman, Linscott, Miller & Perron, Miskoe & Paul, Perlman, Raven, Phillips/1995, Welling}. Standard or ADAD. AABB (most versions): AA'BB (Perlman): AA'BB' (Miskoe & Paul). On the subject of the title, several writers have posited various speculations on who the 'Fisher' might have been. Charles Wolfe, among others, believes it was originally a classical composition by German composer Johann Christian Fischer (1733-1800), a friend of Mozart's, which thought Samuel Bayard (1981) concurs, noting the tune goes back to latter 18th century England where it was composed by "J. Fishar" and "published in 1780" (Most of the alternate titles he gives {and which appear above} are "floaters"). Van Cleef and Keller (1980) identify the composer as probably one James A. Fishar, a musical director and ballet master at Covent Garden during the 1770's, and note it is included as "Hornpipe #1" in J. Fishar's (presumably James A. Fishar's) Sixteen Cotillons Sixteen Minuets Twelve Allemands and Twelve Hornpipes (John Rutherford, London, 1778). A few years later the melody appeared in England under the title "Lord Howe's Hornpipe" in Longman and Broderip's 5th Selection of the Most Admired Dances, Reels, Minuets and Cotillions (London, c. 1784). McGlashan printed it about the same time in his Collection of Scots Measures (c. 1780, pg. 34) under the title "Danc'd by Aldridge," a reference to the famous stage dancer and pantomimist Robert Aldridge, a popular performer in the 1760's and 1770's. Although it is known in Europe as a hornpipe, it has also been played as a reel for dancing the Shetland Reel in Scotland's Shetland Islands. Linscott (1939) thinks the melody resembles an "ancient" Irish folk tune known as "Roger MacMum," implying it might have been derived from that source.
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The tune became widely popular in a short span of time. It was already known as "Fisher's Hornpipe" in both England and the newly independent United States when it was written out by the American John Greenwood in his copybook for the German flute of c. 1783. Another 18th century American publication, a 1796 collection entitled An Evening Amusement for German Flute and Violin, was printed in Philadelphia by Carr and contains the hornpipe set in 'D' Major. An American country dance was composed to the tune and first appeared in this country in John Griffith's Collection, a Rhode Island publication of 1788. Both dance and tune became American classics and entered traditional repertory throughout the county. A fiddler with the Moses Cleaveland surveying party (the city of Cleveland, Ohio, is named after him) is recorded as having played "Fisher's" during an impromptu dance on the first evening the party camped on the banks of the Cuyahoga river, as recorded in the diary of a surveyor with the party. It was one of the most widely known fiddle tunes and, along with "Rickett's Hornpipe," the most popular hornpipe played in the Southern Appalachians (although as time went on hornpipes were not generally dropped from the repertoire, certainly as an accompaniment for dancing, but "Fishers" remained in the repertoire as a fiddler's tune which was frequently played when a few musicians would get together for their own enjoyment). The tune retained its popularity, and Jim Kimball states that both "Fishers" and "Ricketts" (along with "Devil's Dream" and "Soldier's Joy") were favorite tunes for the last figure of square dances in western New York state into the early 20th century.
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Around the Galax, Va., region quite a few fiddlers, like Charlie Higgins and John Rector, play 'Fisher's' in the key of 'G' Major. Tommy Jarrell, of nearby Mt. Airy, N.C., plays the tune in 'D' Major, as did his father, Ben Jarrell, though the tune usually appears in 'F' Major in early collections (the earliest American appearance, John Greenwood's flute MS of 1783, has the tune in 'G,' however). 'F' Major renditions are still common (along with 'D' Major versions) among fiddlers in central and north Missouri-- though relatively rare in the Ozarks region of the state--perhaps because of the because of the influence of the old town orchestras or brass bands (with flat-keyd wind instruments), radio broadcasts from Canadian fiddlers, and local classically trained music professors. Despite the seeming prevalence of the hornpipe set in 'F' major in early publications, Jim Kimball finds that the John Carroll manuscript collection, copied before 1804, gives "Fisher's" in the key of D Major, as does the John Studderd manuscript, c. 1808-1815, and the John Seely manuscript, c. 1819-1830 (Carroll was an Irish-American military musician stationed at Fort Niagara at the time he wrote his manuscript who apparently played both fife and fiddle; Studderd was a native of England prior to emigrating to western New York state in the 1820's; Seely, according to family history, was a fiddler who lived in western New York state for whom "Fishers" was a favorite tune).
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The title "Fisher's Hornpipe" has been mentioned frequently in periodicals and other printed sources in America over the years. For example, it was recorded as having been one of the catagory tunes at the 1899 Gallatin, Tenn., fiddlers contest; each fiddler would play his version of the tune, with the best rendition winning a prize (C. Wolfe, The Devil's Box, Vol. 14, No. 4, 12/1/80). Similarly, it was listed in the Fayette Northwest Alabamian of 8/29/1929 as one of the tunes likely to be played by local fiddlers at an upcoming convention (Cauthen, 1990). Moving north, another citation stated it had commonly been played for country dances in Orange County, New York, in the 1930's (Lettie Osborn, New York Folklore Quarterly), while Burchenal (1918) printed a dance from New England of the same name to the tune. A Report of the Celebration Held in August 1914 for the 150th Anniversary of the Town of Lancaster (N.H.) gives the title as one of the tunes and dances performed at a cotillion that month. The title appears in a list of Maine fiddler Mellie Dunham's repertoire (Dunham was Henry Ford's champion fiddler in the late 1920's) and Gibbons (1982) notes it has been "a traditional dance melody familiar to fiddlers throughout Canada." Perlman (1996) notes it has status as one of the "good old tunes" played by Prince Edward Island fiddlers. In the South and Midwest the tune was recorded for the Library of Congress from the playing of Ozark Mountain fiddlers in the early 1940's by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, and (by Herbert Halpert) from the playing of Mississippi fiddlers Charles Long and Stephen B. Tucker in 1939. The Arizona fiddler Kenner C. Kartchner related that it, in modern times, it was "played often at (the) Weiser (Idaho) annual (fiddle) contest" (Shumway), to which Louie Attebery (1979) concurs, calling it part of the "standard fare" of many fiddlers at that festival and contest.
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In the repertiore of Uncle Jimmy Thompson (1848-1931) {Texas, Tenn.}, and Buffalo Valley, Pa. dance fiddler Harry Daddario. See also "Miss Thompson's Reel," which particularly resembles the "Fisher's" in it's second section.
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Sources for notated versions: Edson Cole (Freedom, N.H.) [Linscott]: Frank George (W.Va.) [Krassen]; Frank Lowery (Prince George, British Columbia) [Gibbons]; Lorin Simmonds (Prince Edward Island, 1944) [Bayard, 1981]; transplanted French-Canadian fiddler Omer Marcoux {1898-1982} (Concord, N.H.), who learned the tune when young in Quebec [Miskoe & Paul]; 6 southwestern Pa. fiddlers and fifers [Bayard, 1981]; Ruthie Dornfeld and Major Franklin (Texas) [Phillips/1995 {two different versions}]; accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border), recorded in recital at Na Piobairi Uilleann, February, 1981 [Moylan]; Dennis Pitre (b. 1941, St. Felix, West Prince County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]; Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford]; set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, in the 1980's [Taylor]. Allan's (Allan's Irish Fiddler), No. 105, pg. 27. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 345, pgs. 332-334 and Appendix No. 3, pg. 573. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 107. Burchenal (American Country Dances, Vol. 1), 1918; pg. 47. R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, Vol. 1), 1973; pg. 57. Cranford (Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 45, pg. 17. Ford (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 39. Gibbons (As It Comes: Folk Fiddling From Prince George, British Columbia), 1982; No. 6, pgs. 18-19. Honeyman (Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor), 1898; pg. 40 (two versions, one in Newcastle and Sand Dance style, on in Sailor's style). Jarman, Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes; No. 20, pg. 67. Johnson & Luken (Twenty-Eight Country Dances as Done at the New Boston Fair), Vol. 8, 1988; pg. 4. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 103. Krassen (Appalachian Fiddle), 1973; pg. 79. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 1; No. 3, pg. 42. Linscott (Folk Music of Old New England), 1939; pg. 77. Miller & Perron (New England Fiddlers Repertoire), 1983; No. 117. Miskoe & Paul (Omer Marcoux), 1994; pg. 31. Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 63, pg. 36. O'Neill (1915 ed.), 1987; No. 351, pg. 171. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 168. O'Neill (1850), 1903/1979; Nos. 1575 & 1576, pg. 292. O'Neill (1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No. 825, pg. 143. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; pg. 117. Phillips, 1989 (Fiddlecase Tunebook: Old-Time); pg. 19. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 2, 1995; pgs. 1992-193. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 163. Reiner (Anthology of Fiddle Styles), 1977; pg. 26. Roche Collection, Vol. 3, No. 181. Ruth (Pioneer Western Folk Tunes), 1948; No. 23, pg. 10. Spandaro (10 Cents a Dance), 1980; pg. 10. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 297. Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1964/1981; pg. 42. Taylor (Music for the Sets: Yellow Book), 1995; pg. 14. Welling (Welling's Hartford Tunebook), 1976; pg. 20. Alcazar Dance Series FR 204, "New England Chestnuts" (1981). Breton Books and Records BOC 1HO, Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald - "Classic Cuts" (reissue of Celtic Records CX 17). Caney Mountain CEP 212 (privately issued extended play album), Lonnie Robertson (Mo.), 1965-66. Claddagh CC5, Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford - "The Star Above the Garter" (appears as "Fisherman's Hornpipe"). County 405, "The Hill-Billies." County 707, Major Franklin- "Texas Fiddle Favorites." County 756, Tommy Jarrell- "Sail Away Ladies" (1986. The only time Tommy's famous fiddling father, Ben Jarrell {who took no active part in his musical education and rarely commented on his son's efforts}, praised his playing in front of him was after hearing the younger fiddler play the tune, remarking "By gawd, that's the best I've ever heard "Fisher's Hornpipe" played"). Elektra EKS 7285, The Dillards with Byron Berline- "Pickin' and Fiddlin.'" F&W Records 4, "The Canterbury Country Orchestra Meets the F&W String Band." Folkways FA 2381, "The Hammered Dulcimer as played by Chet Parker" (1966). Folkways FG 3531, Jean Carignan- "Old Time Fiddle Tunes" (1968). Fretless 101, "The Campbell Family: Champion Fiddlers." Gourd Music 110, Barry Phillips - "The World Turned Upside Down" (1992). North Star NS0038, "The Village Green: Dance Music of Old Sturbridge Village." Rounder 0035, Fuzzy Mountain String Band- "Summer Oaks and Porch" (1973). Rounder 7004, Joe Cormier- "The Dances Down Home" (1977). Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40126, Northern Spy - "Choose Your Partners!: Contra Dance & Square Dance Music of New Hampshire" (1999). Topic 12T309, Padraig O'Keeffe, Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford - "Kerry Fiddles" (appears as "Fisherman's Hornpipe").
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dB FB dB fd|cA FA cA fc|df ed cB AG|F2A2F2:|
X:2
T:Fishers
L:1/8
M:C|
R:Hornpipe
B:The Athole Colletion
K:D
dc|dAFA GBAG|FAFA GBAG|FDFD GEGE|FDFD E2 dc|dAFA GBAG|
FAFA GBAG|FAdf gedc|d2 d2 d2:||:cd|ecAc ecge|fdAd fdaf|ecAc ecgf|
edcB A3A|BGDG BGdB|AFDF AFdA|BdcB AGFE|D2 D2 D2:|
FORGERON, LE (The Blacksmith). French-Canadian, Reel. A Major. AEAE. AA'BB'. A 'crooked' tune. Source for notated version: Acadien fiddler Pius Boudreault via Jean Carignan (Montreal); also André Alain (St-Basile de Portneuf) [Remon & Bouchard]. Remon & Bouchard (25 Crooked Tunes, Vol. 1: Québec Fiddle Tunes), 1996; No. 20.
GABA MEADRAC, AN. AKA and see "The Merry Blacksmith."
GABHA MEIDHREACH, AN. AKA and see "The Merry Blacksmith."
GREEN GARTERS [2] (Crioscosa Glais). AKA and see "Geehan's Reel," "The Grazier," "Trim the Velvet," "The Humours of Flip," "The Potlick," "Sally Kelly." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AB (O'Neill/1850 & 1001): AA'BB' (O'Neill/Krassen). Breathnach (1963) says "The Blacksmith's Reel," also known as "The Blacksmith's Daughter," is a version of this tune. See also the related "Leslie's Reel." Source for notated version: Chicago fiddler James Kennedy who had the tune from his father, a celebrated local fiddler from Ballinamore, County Leitrim [O'Neill]. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 147. O'Neill (1850), 1903/1979; No. 1478, pg. 273. O'Neill (1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No. 706, pg. 124.
T:Green Garters
M:C|
L:1/8
Q:224
R:reel
B:O'Neill's 1850, No. 1473
N:see also "Blacksmith's" and "Leslie's" reels
Z:Lorna LaVerne
K:D
d2fd Adfd | d2fa gece | d2fd Adfd | edcd efge |
d2fd Adfd | d2fa gece | d2fd Adfa | gecd edd2 :|
agfg afdf | a2fd efge | agfg afdf | edcd efge |
agfg afdf | a2fd efge | afge fdec | ABcd efge :|
HARMONIOUS BLACKSMITH, THE (Y Gof Du). Welsh. This Welsh air was arranged with variations for harpsichord by the great composer Handel. It is said that he came to Whitchurch on the Welsh borders and there had to take shelter from a downpour in a village smithy. Overhearing the smith singing this tune in Welsh as he worked at his anvil, the composer was so taken with it he felt compelled to memorize it. Flying Fish FF70610, Robin Huw Bowen - "Telyn Berseiniol fy Ngwlad/Welsh Music on the Welsh Triple Harp" (1996).
HOWLING WIND. AKA and see "Tam Lin."
IKE FORRESTER'S REEL. AKA and see "The Merry Blacksmith," "Paddy on the Railway," "The Corkonian," "The Peeler's Jacket," "The Boys of the Lake," "The Railroad," "The Police Jacket," "The Shepherd in/on the Gap," "The Peeler's/Policeman's Reel." Francis O'Neill named this tune after Ike Forrester, the fiddling village blacksmith of Edina, Missouri, who played this tune at local dances where O'Neill played the flute. O'Neill describes the attendees at the affair as "a motley crowd--fiddlers galore, and each with his instrument. Irish, Germans, French--types of their respective races--and the gigantic Kentuckians, whose heads were endangered by the low ceilings, crowded in, and never a misunderstanding or display of ill-nature marred those gatherings. Seated behind the fiddler, intent on picking up the tunes, was my accustomed post" (O'Neill, Irish Folk Music).
JOHN THE BLACKSMITH (Sean An Gaba). Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard. AABB. O'Neill (1850), 1903/1979; No. 875, pg. 162.
JOHNNY THE BLACKSMITH [1]. Bluegrass, Breakdown. USA. A Major. Standard. AABB. Source for notated version: Kenny Baker [Phillips]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 149. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; pg. 126. County 730, Kenny Baker- "Baker's Dozen."
JOHNNY THE BLACKSMITH [2]. Unrelated to above. Front Hall 010, Fennigs All Stars- "The Hammered Dulcimer Strikes Again."
JOLLY BLACKSMITH. Old-Time. A version of "Flop-Eared Mule" by Tennessee fiddler Theron Hale, recorded in 1928.
LESLIE'S REEL. Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Donegal. G Major. Standard. AA'B. From the playing of the Leslie brothers, Pat and Mick, who were contemporaries of John Byrne of Glencolmcille, Donegal, who passed it on to his son, James Byrne. Donegal fiddlers often pair it with "The Shetland Fiddler." See also the related tunes "The Blacksmith's Reel," "The Blacksmith's Daughter," and "The Green Garters." Source for notated version: set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, late 1980's [Taylor ]. Taylor (Music for the Sets: Blue Book), 1995; pg. 26. Green Linnet SIF 1078, "Altan." Sean Potts, Paul McGrattan, "Face the Hob." Gael-Linn CEF 140, Kevin Glackin - "Na Saighneáin/Northern Lights."
T:Leslie's Reel
T:Shetlander (LL)
N:Alternate title added; default note length changed to 1/8 (LL)
M:C|
L:1/8
R:reel
Z:id:hn-reel-503
K:A
ec~c2 ecfc|ec~c2 Bcdf|ec~c2 ecea|1 fdBc defa:|2 fdBc defg||
|:a2ea gbeg|a2ga fB~B2|1 a2ea gbec|dcBc defg:|2 agfe fedc|Bcde fgaf||
LETTERKENNY BLACKSMITH, THE. Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard. AA'BB'. Composed by County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddle player and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988), and named after a legendary powerful smithy. Reavy (The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy), No. 34, pg. 36.
T:Letterkenny Blacksmith
R:Reel
S:Fisher Street
D:Fisher Street: Out in the Night
Z:Adrian Scahill
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:G
G2BG AGFD|GABG EA,A,2|G2BG ABcd|edcA FDEF|\ G2BG AGFD|GABG EA,A,2|G,A,B,D EFGA|(3Bcd Ac BGG2:||\ (3Bcd gd (3Bcd gd|(3^cde ae (3cde ae|(3Bcd gd (3Bcd eg|fdcA BGGA|\ (3Bcd gd (3Bcd gd|(3^cde ae (3cde ad|(3efg fa gbag|fdcA BGG2:||
MERRY BLACKSMITH, THE ("An Gaba Meadrac" or "An Gabha Meidhreach"). AKA and see "The Boys of the Lake," "Collin's Reel," "Corkonian Reel," "Devils in Dublin," "Emminence Breakdown," "The Flags of Dublin," "Ike Forrester's Reel," "Mist on the Loch," "Paddy on the Railroad," "Peeler's Jacket," "The Police Jacket," "The Peeler's/Policeman's Reel," "The Railroad," "The Shepherd in/on the Gap." Irish, English; Reel. D Major. Standard. AB (O'Neill/1850 & 1001): AA'B (O'Neill/Krassen): AABB (Allan's, Kennedy, Raven, Tubridy): ABCD (Breathnach). County Sligo/New York fiddler Michael Coleman recorded a version of this tune in 1921 as the second tune in a medley entitled "The Boys of the Lough." Joyce gives the tune as "The Boys of the Lake" and again as an untitled tune (1909, No. 156). Goodman's titles are "The Railroad" and "The Police Jacket." Sources for notated versions: piper Séamus Ennis (Ireland) [Breathnach]; "sent to me many years ago by Mr. (now Dr.) Grattan Flood of Co. Wexford" [Joyce]. Allan's Irish Fiddler, No. 46, pg. 11. Breathnach (CRE III), 1985; No. 94, pgs. 48-49. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 156, pg. 79 (appears as untitled reel). Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book), Vol. 1, 1951; No. 31, pg. 16. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 153. O'Neill (1001 Gems), 1903/1986; No. 728, pg. 128. O'Neill (1850), 1903/1979; No. 1509, pg. 279. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 170. Tubridy (Irish Traditional Music, Book Two), 1999; pg. 25. Green Linnet Records SIF 100, Seamus Ennis - "Forty Years of Irish Piping" (1977).
T:Merry Blacksmith
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:D
:AB|d2dA BAFA|ABdA BAFA|ABde fded|Beed egfe|
d3A BAFA-|ABdA BAFA-|ABde fdec|dBAF D2:|
|:fg|a2ag f2fe|d2dA BAFA-|ABde fded|Beed egfg|
abag fgfe|dcdA BAFA|ABde fdec|dBAF D2:|
MIST ON THE LOCH. AKA and see "Merry Blacksmith," "Devils in Dublin," "Paddy on the Railroad." Canadian, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard. AABB. A version of the Irish tune usually known as "The Merry Blacksmith." This version is similar to that recorded by Michael Coleman in 1921 as the second tune on the recording "The Boys in the Lough." Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford]. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 136, pg. 55. Breton Books and Records BOC 1HO, Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald - "Classic Cuts" (reissue of Celtic Records CX 17).
MISS JOHNSTON OF HILTON'S FANCY. Scottish, Strathspey. E Flat Major. Standard. AAB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow. The beautiful and celebrated Miss Lucy Johnston of Hilton was a distinguished amateur musician and dancer, one of six girls in a family of eleven, who composed several pieces for the Gow collections. She was frequently seen at dances and concerts in Scotland and married Richard Oswald of Auchencruive in 1793 (Robert Burns wrote some verses for the occasion). Tragically, after bearing two children, she developed tuberculosis, and though Oswald took her to Portugal in an effort to save her life, she died in 1797. It is unlikely the title refers to her sister Suphy, a brilliant well-known eccentric who was self-educated, wore masculine clothing, and was a fiddler and a blacksmith. Lady Ane Barnard wrote the words of "Auld Robin Gray" to her favorite tune. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 147.
O'DWYER'S HORNPIPE [2]. AKA and see "Fisher's Hornpipe," "The Blacksmith Hornpipe," "Sailor's Hornpipe," "The First of May," "Wigs on the Green" (these are mostly floating titles"). Irish, Hornpipe. C Major. Standard. AABB. The title appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997). Source for notated version: piper Denis Delany (Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, Ireland) [Darley & McCall]. Darley & McCall (The Darley & McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music), 1914; No. 29, pg. 12.
PADDY ON THE RAILROAD. AKA and see "The Boys of the Lake,""Collin's Reel," "Corkonian Reel," "Devils in Dublin," "Emminence Breakdown," "Ike Forrester's Reel," "Merry Blacksmith," "Mist on the Loch," "Peeler's Jacket," "The Police Jacket," "Peeler's/Policeman's Reel," "Policeman's Cap," "The Railroad," "The Shepherd in/on the Gap." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AABB. Sources for notated versions: Alan Block (N.H.) [Phillips]; accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border), recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, October, 1984 (O'Leary associates the tune with Charlie Mulvihill) [Moylan]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 213. Cole (1001 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 25. Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 144, pg. 84. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, Vol. 1), 1994; pg. 179. Jarman, Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes; No. or pg. 28. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 2; No. 293, pg. 32. Miller & Perron (New England Fiddlers Repertoire), 1983; No. 77. Biograph 6007, Ebenezer- "Tell It to Me."
T:Paddy on the Railroad
L:1/8
M:C|
K:D
|:fe|d2 dA BA FA|Ad dA BA FA|AB de f2 ed|Be ed eg fe|
d2 dA BA FA|AB dA BA FA|AB de fd ec|dB AF D2:|
|:fg|ab ag f2 fe|d2 dA BA FA|AB de f2 ed|B2 ed ef ge|
ab ag f2 fe|d2 dA BA FA|AB de fd ec|dB AF D2:|
PADDY TAYLOR'S [2]. Irish, Double Jig. D Major. Standard. AABB. Source for notated versions: "from Paddy Taylor, Loughill (between Askeaton and Foynes), Co. Limerick, R.I.P." [Breathnach, Mulvihill]. According to Brendan Breathnach, Taylor learned this jig from Mick Barry, a local blacksmith in Loughill. Breathnach (CRE II); No. 1, pg. 3 (appears as "Gan Anim"). Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 68, pg. 79. Spin CD1001, Eoghan O'Sullivan, Gerry Harrington, Paul De Grae - "The Smoky Chimney" (1996).
PEELER'S JACKET [1]. AKA and see "The Boys of the Lake," "Collin's Reel," "Corkonian Reel," "Emminence Breakdown," "Ike Forrester's Reel," "Merry Blacksmith," "Paddy on the Railroad," "Peeler's/Policeman's Reel," "The Railroad," "The Shepherd in/on the Gap." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AB. 'Peeler' was a slang term for a policeman in Ireland, a reference to Sir Robert Peel who originated the Irish police force in the mid-19th century. Cole (1001 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 22.
PEELER'S REEL. AKA and see "The Policeman's Reel," "The Merry Blacksmith," "The Peeler's Jacket" [1].
PETER'S JACKET. American, March (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard. AB. Source for notated version: Frank Thomas (elderly fiddler and blacksmith from Somerset County, Pa., 1946; who learned it from another blacksmith in Somerset) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 123, pg. 68.
POLICE JACKET, THE. AKA and see "The Policeman's/Peeler's Reel," "The Peeler's Jacket," "The Merry Blacksmith," "Paddy on the Railway," "The Boys of the Lake," "The Shepherd in/on the Gap," "The Railroad," "Ike Forrester's Reel," "The Corkonian."
POLICEMAN'S CAP. AKA and see "The Merry Blacksmith," "Paddy on the Railroad." Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AA'BB'. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 3; No. 10, pg. 4.
POLICEMAN'S REEL, THE. AKA and see "The Police/Peeler's Jacket," "The Merry Blacksmith."
RAILROAD, THE [2]. AKA and see "The Merry Blacksmith," "The Corkonian," "Paddy on the Railway," "The Boys of the Lake," "The Peeler's Jacket," "The Police Jacket," "The Shepherd in the Gap," "The Peeler's/Policeman's Reel."
REEL DU FORGERON. AKA and see "Blacksmith's Reel," "(Le) Forgeron."
RÍL AN GHABHA (The Blacksmith's Reel). AKA and see "The Blacksmith's Reel."
RORY THE BLACKSMITH FROM IRELAND. Irish, Air (6/8 time, "with spirit"). D Major. Standard. AB. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 93, pgs. 48-49.
T:Rory the Blacksmith from Ireland
L:1/8
M:6/8
S:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music
R:Song Air
N:"With spirit, time well marked"
K:D
F/E/|D>ED DEF|EDD D2F|A>Bc dcB||
AB=c B2A|d>cB BAF|GFG A2A|Gdc BAF|E3 D2||
SHEPHERD IN/ON THE GAP. AKA and see "The Peeler's/Policeman's Reel," "The Police/Peeler's Jacket," "The Boys of the Lake," "The Corkonian," "The Merry Blacksmith," "Ike Forrester's Reel," "Paddy on the Railway," "The Railroad."
SMITH'S A GALLANT FIREMAN, THE. AKA and see "Carrick's Reel/Rant," "More Luck to Us," "Riley's Favorite." Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard. AB (Kerr, Skinner): AAB (Skye): ABCD (Hardie). Bill Hardie (1986) remarks the title refers to the days when the village blacksmith would serve the populace not only by his trade, but would be called upon to extinguish fires in the event of an emergency. From "J. Scott Skinner's Set" notes Skinner (1843-1927) himself in The Scottish Violinist, while Bill Hardie (1986) styles it "After Charles Hardie's Set." Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1986; pg. 15. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 1; Set 3, No. 1, pg. 4. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 44. Skinner (The Scottish Violinist, with variation), pg. 16. Rounder 7001, Joe Cormier - "Scottish Violin Music from Cape Breton Island" (1974). "The Caledonian Companion" (1975).
T:Smith's a Gallant Fireman, The
L:1/8
M:C
S:Skye Collection
K:D
F|D3F A/A/A A>F|A>Bd>A F/F/F F<D|E2 E>F B/B/B BA|d>fe>d B/B/B B2|
D3F A/A/A A>F|A>Bd>A F/F/F FD|G>BG>B F>AF>A| E>DE>F B/B/B B:|
c|d2 d>f d/d/d d>A|B>Ad>A F/F/F F>D|e3f e/e/e e>f|g>fe>d B/B/B B<e|
d2 d>f d/d/d d>A|B>Ad>A F/F/F F>D|G>BG>B F>AF>A|E>DE>F B/B/B B||
TOM THE BLACKSMITH. AKA and see "The Boyne Hunt."
WIGS ON THE GREEN. AKA and see "Fisher's Hornpipe," "The Blacksmith's Hornpipe," "O'Dwyer's Hornpipe," "Sailor's Hornpipe," "The First of May." Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard. AABB. Roche Collection, 1982, Vol. 3; No. 181, pg. 63.
WILD ROSE OF THE MOUNTAIN [1]. Old-Time, Breakdown (irregular measures in both parts). USA, Kentucky. A Major/Mixolydian. Standard. AABB (Brody, Phillips): AA'BB' (Reiner & Anick). The story attached to the tune, according to Reiner & Anick, says it was "written for a beautiful girl who strayed from one man to the next at local (Ky.) dances." There is some discrepancy about whether the G note in the next to last measure of the 'B' part should be sharped or natural. Sources for notated versions: learned from fiddling blacksmith Bun Oney by J.P. Fraley, when the latter was in his late 20's (Rush, Kentucky) [Phillips, Reiner & Anick]; Jay Ungar (New York) [Brody]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 292. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol, 2, 1995; pg. 171. Reiner & Anick (Old Time Fiddling Across America), 1989; pg. 99. CCF2, Cape Cod Fiddlers - "Concert Collection II" (1999). Flying Fish FF247, "Fiddle Fever" (1981. Appears as part of "Daybreak in the Mountains"). Greenhays GR 710, John McCutcheon - "Fine Times at Our House" (1982. Learned from J.P. Fraley). June Appal 014, John McCutcheon- "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (1977. Learned from J.P. Fraley). Philo 1023, Jay Ungar and Lyn Hardy- "Songs, Ballads, and Fiddle Tunes" (1975). Rounder 0037, J.P. and Annadeene Fraley- "Wild Rose of the Mountain" (1974). Rounder C-11565, J.P. Fraley - "Rounder Fiddle" (1990).
XESUS & FELICIA. Scottish, Slow Reel.
T:Xesus & Felicia
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:122
C:John McCusker
R:Slow Reel (MM=122)
Z:Rob Greenway/David Marcus
K:Bmin
"Bm"FBBc d3f | "A"ef/2e/2de cAdc | "G"BGGF GAB/2c/2d| "F#m"Bcc"Bm"B BAFE|
"Bm"FBBc defa| "A"efed "A(omit 3rd)"cAA=c | "G" BGGF GAB/2c/2d | "F#m"Bcc"Bm"B BAde ||
"D"f2fe faaf | "A"efed "A(omit 3rd)"cAA=c | "G"BGGF GAB/2c/2d | "F#m"Bcc"Bm"B BAag |!
"D"f2fe faaf | "A"efed "A(omit 3rd)"cAA=c | "G"BGGF GAB/2c/2d | "F#m"cBBA "Bm"(3Bcd ef ||
"Em"gBBA B/2c/2deg | gffe edde | "A"eAAB cdeg | "Gmaj7"gffb baag |
"Em"gBBA B/2c/2deg | "G"g"F#m"ff"Em"e e"Bm"dde | "C"e=ccB cdcA|"Bm"B6 BA:||
Y GOF DU. AKA and see "The Harmonious Blacksmith."