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Cape Breton Dream jig

There are 4 recordings of this tune.

Cape Breton Dream has been added to 20 tunebooks.

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Two settings

1
X: 1
T: Cape Breton Dream
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Amaj
|:F|ECA, EAc|BAB cea|f3 fec|ecA BAF|
ECA, EAc|BAB cea|faf fec|ecA A2:|
f/g/|aec aec|fdB fdB|c^Bc aec|BAF FAF|
[1 ECA, EAc|BAB cea|faf fec|ecA A2:|
[2 E^D=D CE=G|F^EF DFA|EGB dcB|cAA A2||
2
X: 2
T: Cape Breton Dream
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Amaj
F|ECA, EAc|BAB cAa|f3 fec|ecA BAF|
ECA, EAc|BAB cAa|f3 fec|ecA A2:|
g|aec aec|fdB fdB|c^Bc aec|BAF FAF|
[1 ECA, EAc|BAB cAa|f3 fec|ecA A2:|
[2 E^D=D CE=G|F^EF DFA|EGB dcB|cAG A2|]

Two comments

This jig was written by Pierre Schryer. He woke up one morning in 1992 with the jig in his head and it sounded to him like a Cape Breton tune, hence the name.
The posted version is from the playing of Troy MacGillivray on his Live at The Music Room CD.

Pierre Schryer plays it thus (or did on 1996’s New Canadian Waltz):

X: 1
T: Cape Breton Dream
C: Pierre Schryer
S: Pierre Schryer/The New Canadian Waltz/Track 10
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
Q: 3/8=126
K: A
F|ECA, EAc|BAB cAa|f3 fec|ecA BAF|
ECA, EAc|BAB cAa|f3 fec|ecA A2:|
g|aec aec|fdB fdB|c^Bc aec|BAF FAF|
[1 ECA, EAc|BAB cAa|f3 fec|ecA A2:|
[2 E^D=D CE=G|F^EF DFA|EGB dcB|cAG A2|]