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Harbour Deep Tune polka

Also known as Goat Dance, Running The Goat, Running The Goat #1.

There are 8 recordings of this tune.

Harbour Deep Tune has been added to 2 tune sets.

Harbour Deep Tune has been added to 5 tunebooks.

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Five settings

1
X: 1
T: Harbour Deep Tune
R: polka
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmix
|:E>F ED|E/F/G A2|BG GA|BD E2|
DE FG|AB A2|BD E/F/E|D2 D2:|
|:Bd dc|Bc A2|BG GA|BGA2|
Bd dc|Bc A2|BD E/F/E|D2 D2:|
2
X: 2
T: Harbour Deep Tune
R: polka
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Amix
|:B2 BA|Bd ed/e/|fd de|fA BA|
AB cd|ef ed/e/|fA B2|A4:|
|:a2- ag|fg ed/e/|fd de|fd ed|
fa ag|fg ed/e/|fa B2|A4:|
3
X: 3
T: Harbour Deep Tune
R: polka
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmix
|:E>F ED|E/F/G AF/A/|BG GA|BD ED|
DE FG|AB A2|BD E/F/E|1 D2 D2:|2 D2 D/E/F/A/||
|:Bd dc|Bc A2|BG GA|BG AG/A/|
Bd dc|Bc A2|BD E/F/E|1 D2 D/E/F/A/:|2 D2 D2||
4
X: 4
T: Harbour Deep Tune
R: polka
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmix
|:E>F ED|EG A2|BG- GA|BD E2|
DE FG|AB A2|BA FE|D2 D2:|
|:Bd dc|Bc A2|BG GA|BG A2|
Bd dc|Bc A2|BA FE|D2 D2:|
5
X: 5
T: Harbour Deep Tune
R: polka
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmix
|:E>F ED|E/F/G A2|BG GA|BD ED|
DE FG|AB A2|BD E/F/E|D2 D2:|
Bd dc|Bc A2|BG GA|BG A2|
Bd dc|Bc A2|BD E/F/E|D2 D2||

Nine comments

Harbour Deep Tune

The first “Goat Tune”, from The STEP Fiddlers. My understanding of it was this one was written in Harbour Deep (old fishing community in Newfoundland, no longer exists), and the other three goat tunes were added on by St. John’s musicians.

Re: Harbour Deep Tune

Did you mean Frank Maher for the x:3 setting?

Re: Harbour Deep Tune

Ah yes, my bad.

Re: Harbour Deep Tune

‘Goat tune’? Wassat?

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Re: Harbour Deep Tune

Possibly a tune played for the Newfoundland set dance running the goat.

Harbour Deep Tune, X:5

This is how I got it from Graham Wells, though it’s also pretty close to how Frank Maher played on one of his old recordings. Note that the tune is AAB, you repeat the A part but not the B part. Also the sixteenth notes are all ones you can play without a bellows direction change (presuming you’re playing on a 4-stop in G) -- luckily you can also use the outside row F# on a C#/D box to get the same effect.