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Yarmouth Breakdown hornpipe

There are 2 recordings of this tune.

Yarmouth Breakdown has been added to 11 tunebooks.

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Two settings

1
X: 1
T: Yarmouth Breakdown
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:AG|FAde ~f3e|fedc B2Af|geed ce~e2|edcB A2AG|
FAde ~f3e|fedc B2Af|geed ce~e2|(3ege dc d2:|
|:AG|FDFA dAFA|~G2FD A,2 (3DDD|CDEF GECE|DEFG A2AG|
FDFA dAFA|~G2FD A,2 (3DDD|CDEF GECE|(3EGE DC D2:|
2
X: 2
T: Yarmouth Breakdown
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
G2|FAde fdAd|fedc B2A2|gfed cABc|edcB A2A2|
FAde fdAd|fedc B2A2|gfed cABc|d2d2 d2:|
|:G2|FDFA dAFA|G2FD A,2D2|CDEF GECE|DEFG A2G2|
FDFA dAFA|G2FD A,2D2|CDEF GECE|D2D2 D2:|

Two comments

Yarmouth Breakdown

An English hornpipe which can be played swung (as Percy Brown plays it) or straight (as I’ve heard it). I learnt this off a CD made by box-player friend Paul Scourfield who plays this after Ironlegs https://thesession.org/tunes/4693. On the CD, entitled The Wayward Daughter, it is listed as an untitled trad tune. He has recently e-mailed me to say that he got the tune from a box player called Ian Dedic.

Another version

X: 1
T: Yarmouth Breakdown
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
G2|FAde fdAd|fedc B2A2|gfed cABc|edcB A2A2|
FAde fdAd|fedc B2A2|gfed cABc|d2d2 d2:|
|:G2|FDFA dAFA|G2FD A,2D2|CDEF GECE|DEFG A2G2|
FDFA dAFA|G2FD A,2D2|CDEF GECE|D2D2 D2:|