Thanks for posting this Jocklet. One of James Hill’s most famous hornpipes. Different versions have that 2nd bar of the B-part as |Ag/f/ec dcBA| or |Afdc dcBA| - I don’t know which one I prefer. Anyway, it was originally written in E major:
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(3Bcd|e2ge Begf|egfa gbag|f2af cfag|fedc BcdB|
e2ge Begf|egfa gbag|fefg aBcd|eBgf e2:|
|:(3BBB|Bbge Bafd|Ba/g/fd edcB|cBdc edfe|gfag f2fg|
abga fgef|dbca BgAf|defg aBcd|eBgf e2:|
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The Hawk
The Shetland Fiddler
This tune sounds like "Out on the Ocean" (joking) Actually, it sounds very much like "The Shetland Fiddler" http://www.thesession.org/tunes/97
The Shetland Fiddler is probably a corruption of the original hornpipe :-)
Beginish recorded it as a reel. It seems they took it from John Doherty.
If you’re like me and you don’t like that ascending bit in the B-part, you do something like this:
|:B2|Bbge Bafd|Bged edcB|cBdB eBfB|gBag f2fg|
abga fgef|dbca BgAe|defg aBcd|eBgf e2:|
This is based on Joe Hutton’s setting, who had it slightly differently on the pipes:
|:B2|Bbge Bafd|Bged edcB|cBeB fBgB|aBag f2fg|
abga fgef|decd BcAe|defg aBcd|eBgf e2:|
…Except that he had it in D, and his pipes were tuned about a tone below concert so the whole thing came out in C.
Yamadasan, although this tune is more like a hornpipe the way the melody leaps about, it more often than not gets played fast and straight like a reel, since there are no strings of triplets. I think it works played both ways.
The Hawk
This is indeed the original of "The Shetland Fiddler", which is a pipe version first published in 1954 by Donald Shaw Ramsay.
It begins a set entitled "The Bells Of St. Louis" on De Danann’s album "A Song For Ireland".
The Wrigley Sisters
Second tune! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr9IrXgfqVU
