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Tune ID#550 (Drunken Sailor)

These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording TPtts (details in the Discography below).

Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Hornpipe	80	AABBCCDDEE	G Dorian

Basic musical information on this tune.

Rhythm ?

Bars

8-bar phrase structure

Mode ?

Hornpipe

AABBCCDDEE

G Dorian

Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):

Drunken Sailor, The (2nd in set The Drunken Sailor on TPtts) (also in A, also with a 6th part composed by Tommy Potts) (compare The Groves Hornpipe #780)

Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc.

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Year Recorded	Track #Tune?	[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
1971	8#2 (1:08)	[TPtts] Tommy Potts. The Liffey Banks. Tommy Potts (fiddle).
~1980	B.2#1	[PGJJ] Paddy Glackin & Jolyon Jackson. Hidden Ground. Paddy Glackin (fiddle), Jolyon Jackson (cello, bouzouki, mandola, mandolin, dobro, guitar, bass, harmonica, bodhrán, synthesizer, tambourine, whistle, recorder).
~1988	13#1	[NH 1] Noel Hill. The Irish Concertina. Noel Hill (concertina).
~1992	6#1	[FireAfl] Matt Molloy, Seán Keane, Liam O'Flynn. The Fire Aflame. Matt Molloy (flute), Seán Keane (fiddle), Liam O'Flynn (pipes).
1995	20#1	[FMD 1] The Fiddle Music of Donegal. Volume One. Peter Tracey (fiddle).
~1996	4#1	[LN 1] Laurence Nugent. Traditional Irish Music on Flute and Tin-Whistle. Laurence Nugent (flute, whistle). For this tune: (whistle).
~1999	15#1	[CNea 1] Colin Nea. The Pure Box. Colin Nea (accordion).
~2000	6#1	[LC 3] Liz Carroll. Lost in the Loop. Liz Carroll (fiddle).
~2005	5#1	[TOCAM] Tony O'Connell and Andy Morrow. Tony O'Connell and Andy Morrow with Arty McGlynn. Tony O'Connell (concertina), Andy Morrow (fiddle). For this tune: 1st time Tony (concertina).
~2007	9#1	[Chlr 3] Chulrua. The Singing Kettle. Paddy O'Brien (accordion), Patrick Ourceau (fiddle), Pat Egan (guitar, vocals). For this tune: Paddy (accordion).
2013	10#2	[CFF 6] The Celtic Fiddle Festival. Live in Brittany. André Brunet (fiddle, feet), Kevin Burke (fiddle), Christian Lemaître (fiddle), Nicolas Quémener (guitar). For this tune: Kevin (fiddle).
~2020	7#1	[RogRae1] Rogha Raelach. Volume 1. Aoife Ní Bhriain (fiddle).

Played after	On Albums
Galway Bay	TPtts, CFF 6

Played after

On Albums

Galway Bay

TPtts, CFF 6

Played before	On Albums
Paddy Fahey's Hornpipe No. 2	FMD 1
Bag of Spuds	LC 3
Gatehouse Maid	Chlr 3

Played before

On Albums

Paddy Fahey's Hornpipe No. 2

FMD 1

Bag of Spuds

LC 3

Gatehouse Maid

Chlr 3

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune considering only the indexed books, listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are musical matches to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
As tune #54 in [LPF] Eithne and Brian Vallely. Learn to Play the Fiddle with Armagh Pipers Club. [available]
As hp #63 in [HN] Henrik Norbeck. Henrik Norbeck's Abc Tunes. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Tune ID#550 (Drunken Sailor)

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