Good For The Tongue (hornpipe) on The Session

“Good for the Tongue” ~ another hornpipe

“Good for the Tongue” ~ the B-part, bars 1 - 4, another take:

“Good for the Tongue” is also more or less here as:

The Stoney Steps/Jenkins
https://thesession.org/tunes/3106
The Washington
https://thesession.org/tunes/5255

“Good for the Tongue” ~ all in the family, a close one

Yes Laitch ~ a decision was made, right or wrong. I had already done the search, title-wise and note/bar wise, but I his a low last night and put a stop to it and hadn’t added the links as I usually try to do. I was also struggling with the notion of whether this was distinct enough from the other two to stand on its own. “The Washington Hornpipe” had a different enough B-part that I could pass that, and I realized some of my bits were inherited and passed over from “The Stony Steps”, probably someone I’d heard play it or had learned it from sometimes ago… Anyway, I took a risk, it seems to have its own distinct character… Bothering my mind more is trying to remember where I got it from? As per usual, the links in my fashion, which I should have put up yesterday, will follow, maybe with some notes too.

“The Stoney Steps” / “Jenkin’s Hornpipe” ~ the family

Key signature: G Major (also played in Bb & A)
Submitted on June 2nd 2004 by jdave.
https://thesession.org/tunes/3106

I was planning to add another transcript and information there…

“The Washington Hornpipe” ~ more of the triplets

Key signature: A Major
Submitted on November 29th 2005 by Ptarmigan.
https://thesession.org/tunes/5255

“Good For the Tongue” / “White Fish in the Rapids” ~ relative old-time tunes

‘c’, learn it in the proper key!

I find it easier to play in A as written in “The Portland Collection.”

Good For The Tongue hornpipe

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