Good For The Tongue hornpipe

Also known as Good On The Tongue.

There are 2 recordings of this tune.

Good For The Tongue appears in 1 other tune collection.

Good For The Tongue has been added to 29 tunebooks.

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“Good for the Tongue” ~ another hornpipe

As promised to Button ~ without the Dzong & Dzings:

K: G Major
|: (3DEF |
GABc dGFG | eGfG gGFG | EcDB CcFG | ABcA GFED |
G2 (3ABc dG (3GGG | eGfG gGFG | EcDB Cc (3EFG | BAGF G2 :|
|: Bc |
dG (3GGG eG (3GGG | gf (3gfe dBGB | cded cB (3BAG | Fd^cd (3=cBA FD |
GD (3ABc d2 (3GFG | eGfG gG (3GGG | EcDB CcFG | (3BcB (3AGF G2 :|

Here’s some other possibilities with the last four measures of the A & B parts:

G>AB>c d2 F>G | e>Gf>G g2 F>G | E>cD>B C>AB,>G | B2 (3AGF G2 :|

~ or ~

GABc d2 FG | eGfG g2 FG | EcDB CAB,G | B2 (3AGF G2 :|

“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…

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

Courtesy of “The Fiddler’s Companion” ~ Andrew Kuntz
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/GOO_GOW.htm
S:White’s Unique Collection (1896), No. 142

I have changed that transcription, for comparison, from 2/4 to 4/4…

T: Good For the Tongue
K: Bb Major
|: F2 |
Bcde fBAB | .g.B.a.B .bBAB | GeFd EcDB | .c.d.e.c .B.A.G.F |
Bcde fBAB | .g.B.a.B bBAB | GeFd EcDB | dcBA [D2B2] :|
|: de |
fBAB gBAB | babg gfed | g^fgd edeG | c/d/e/c/ B/A/G/F/ |
Bcde fBAB | .g.B.a.B .bBAB | GeFd EcDB | dcBA [D2B2] :|

‘c’, learn it in the proper key!

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