The Flowing Tide hornpipe

Also known round these parts as the Floating Turd, perhaps a comment on the Severn Estury. Despite this it’s a lovely tune, the Kilbride Brothers do a nice slow version; we do an equally competent version preceded by the Home Ruler.

The version now played is a key-of-G setting of the original one in A major, which requires a shift to a higher postion on the fiddle and is not easily played by BC button accordionists, flute players or concertina players.

The most elaborate printed version is “The Seventh Regiment” in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, which attributes it to the 19th-century fiddler Conn Higgins. O’Neill borrowed it and changed the name to “Higgins’ Best.” The Seventh Regiment was a National Guard regiment based in New York and supported by the city’s wealthier uptown element (as opposed to the downtown, working-class Irish 69th Regiment).

M:4/4
L:1/8
R: hornpipe (swingin’ as given) / reel
S: Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883
- indirectly, where it was listed in 2/4 time as a ‘reel’
K: Amaj
|: A2 A>c e>Ac>e | a>ce>a (3c’d’c’ b>a | f>ae>a c>ea>f | e>cB>A F>AE>C |
A,2 A>c e>Ac>e | a>ce>a (3c’d’c’ b>a | f>ae>a c>ef>e | c>eB>e A4 :|
|: A2 A>c B>AF>A | a>ga>f e>cB>A | d>fc>e B>dA>c | d>Bc>A B>AF>A |
E>Ac>e a>ce>a | d’>bc’>a b>af>a | e>ac>f e>d’b>g | a2 a2 a4 :|

This is good in a set with the Flowers of Edinburgh

I think this makes a better reel than hornpipe - you don’t need to make many adjustments for it to work. I like my hornpipes to sound like hornpipes, I’m afraid.

X: 3
T: Flowing Tide, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|: D |\
G>DG>B d>G (3Bcd | G>Bd>g b>ga>g | (3efg d>g B>dg>e | d2 (3BAG e>dB>A |
G3 B d>GB>d | G>Bd>g b>ga>g | (3efg dg Bdge | dBAB G3 :|
|: D |\
G>FG>B A>GE>D | g>fg>e d>BA>B | c>dB>c A>BG>B | (3cBA B>G A>G (3EFG |
D>GB>d B3 d | (3cBA B>G A>G (3EFG | D>G (3Bcd g>dB>G | D>G (3FGA G3 :|

Still fucntioning in an exhausted state, bars 7 & 8, I missed the > ~ 😏

this Hornpipe almost deserves to be a reel