Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on October 24th 2001 by JeffK627.
This tune has been added to 87 tunebooks.
Also known as The Bunch Of Keys, Paddy On The Handcar, Patty On The Turnpike.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Paddy On The Turnpike
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
AG |: EAAB A2AB | cAdB cBAG | EGGF G2GA | BGAF GFED |
EAAB A2AB | cBAB cdef | gage dBGB |1 cABG A2AG :|2 cABG A2cd |:
eaab a2af | bfaf gfed | efga g2gf | bfaf gfed | eaab a2af | bfaf gfef |
gage dBGB |1 cABG A2cd :|2 cABG A2z2||
Paddy on the Turnpike
A friend of mine once wrote words for this. I just like the melody - it's one of the few things I like to play slowly
(It's also one of the few things I can actually play on the hammered dulcimer!)
# Posted on October 24th 2001 by JeffK627
What gives?
My biggest beef with Irtrad session music is that fully half of it is in the key of G or it's associated modes, and now here is a tune which I find typically played in G and it is transposed up to A? Is this tune typically played in this key in sessions?
# Posted on October 24th 2001 by scottythefiddler
A Dorian
A Dor is a kind of G, right?
# Posted on October 24th 2001 by glauber
Glauber, you are so right...
forgive my earlier outburst....I must have been grumpy about something when I wrote that, but now I can't remember what.
Actually, I learned the tune in G Aeolian (a B-flat major scale). It is a great tune in any key. Besides, if I am truly "put out" by so many session tunes 'in or on' G, then I should welcome seeing one done "in or on" A.
Maybe, I was thinking about a different tune..."Paddy on the Dreary Plateau". :O)
# Posted on October 24th 2001 by scottythefiddler
Scotty,
This is a G minor (G aeolian?) version of the tune I found in the New England Fiddler's Repertoire. It differs in detail from the A dorian version posted here but is essentially the same tune. How does it equate to the G min/aeo version you know?
K:Gmin
DGG^F G2GA|BGdG eGdG|DFF=E F2FG|AFcF dFcF|
DGG^F G2GA|BAGA Bcd=e|f=efd cAFA|BGAF G4:|
|:dgg^f g2ga|baga bgaf|dffg f2fg|agfg afgf|
dgg^f g2ga|bagf dcd=e|f=efd cAFA|BGAF G4:||
Trevor
# Posted on December 7th 2002 by lazyhound
It's played in G
You're right scottythefiddler. It is usually played in G. In fact I've *never* heard it in A. It presumably comes from a scottish tune, which lacks the third part. Can't remember the Scottish version name. Anyway Tommy Peoples plays the Irish version on one of his early albums.
# Posted on April 22nd 2003 by pchaffee
Padddy on a ......
I pretty sure I have a recording of this tune as Paddy on a Handcar.
# Posted on April 18th 2005 by red_haired_girl
The Gdor version of this was posted as The Bunch Of Keys and can be found here: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/344. One version I play is a simple 2-part setting in Gdor, similar to the one Trevor posted above:
X: 1
T: Paddy On The Turnpike
T: Bunch Of Keys, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gdor
DGGF ~G3A|BG~G2 dGBG|DFFE ~F3B|AFcF dFcF|
DGGF ~G3A|BGGA Bcde|~f3d cAFA|1 BGAF ~G3F:|2 BGAF ~G3c||
|:dggf ~g3a|bg~g2 bgaf|dffe ~f3g|af~f2 afgf|
dggf ~g3a|bg~g2 gfde|~f3d cAFA|1 BGAF ~G3c:|2 BGAF ~G3F||
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by Dow
Key of A
In SW PA, Western MD and WV fiddlers normally play it in the A dorian from way back.
# Posted on January 6th 2006 by The Merry Highlander
"The Mills Are Grinding"
Submitted on May 18th 2006 by slainte.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5779
# Posted on July 13th 2006 by ceolachan
Andy McGann's setting
Andy McGann plays this in G Mixolydian on 'It's a Hard Road to Travel'. It quite nicely combines the lift of the ''Turnpike' setting with the sombre mood of the 'Keys' setting. Not very sessionable, mind you.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by Robert Ryan