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I got this tune from bb via someone else at a session, so it’s been passed around a fair bit here. See Norbeck’s for a slightly different setting.
Not to be confused with "The Piper On Horseback" https://thesession.org/tunes/1247 which has a very similar 1st part.
I’ve just found another setting that’s closer to this one but less basic, and was probably the original source: http://home.capecod.net/~zouki/webabc/abc.abc/021604.abc
Thanks
I’ve been playing this tune for about 10 years and haven’t remember the last damn bar for about seven! The rest of it is (amazingly) almost note-for-note what I play. Cheers.
Another setting
See also the setting below, courtesy of Josephine Keegan from her book "A Drop In The Ocean".
X:1
T:Bonny Ann
M:4/4
R:Reel
K:D
|:f2ed cA (3AAA|cAeA cAAg|fded cAAB|cAGE EDD2|
f2ed cA (3AAA|cAeA cAGE|DEFG AddB|cAGE EDD2:||
|:Addc defg|abaf g2 (3ABc|d2dc dfed|cAGE EDDF|
Addc defg|abaf g2fg|afge fded|cAGE EDD2:||
This is one of those tunes that sounds good when Cnats replace some of the C#’s. I learned it from Teada’s setting.
This is not the one that Gerry O’Conner plays.
See https://thesession.org/tunes/4316
Bonnie Ann
Really great playing of this tune by Teada http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJifxcbxWA4
Bonny Anne, X:3
Different in B part.
Re: Bonny Anne
What’s the source of your transcription, Rosie-123, and are you sure it it correct ? I count your 2nd part as having 17 bars, which to my knowledge would make it unique in Irish music. I have no idea how people would dance to that, and that is the reason for my query.
