The Hot Ashpelt (hornpipe) on The Session

One setting

X: 1
T: The Hot Ashpelt
R: hornpipe

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
cB|:AcBc AGEG|cd (3edc d2 (3efg|1 aged cABA|
GDGA BG cB:|2 aged cABG|A2AG A2 (3efg||
|:aged cdef|gfga g2 (3efg|aged cABA|GDGA BGcB|
AcBc AGEG|cd (3edc d2 (3efg|aged cABG|A2 AG A2 z2:|

Three comments

Maybe someone will be able to identify this tune as I heard it as the theme tune on an Irish TV programme called ‘Hands’ from several years back.

“Hot Ashpelt”

I don’t think I know the actual name of the hornpipe, but it’s the tune that’s used for the song “The Hot Ashpelt” about Irish navvies.In 4/4 time, and in A mixolydian [?]mode, Scottish pipers call it “The Battle Of Waterloo”. No idea which came first.

Bonaparte?

It sounds like it could be related to the Bonaparte tunes:

Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine
https://thesession.org/tunes/7

Bonaparte Crossing The Alps
https://thesession.org/tunes/3056

I think they are related to The Battle Of Waterloo.

The Hot Ashpelt hornpipe

One setting

Three comments

“Hot Ashpelt”

Bonaparte?