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Johnny Ward’s strathspey

Also known as Johnny Ward’s Highland Fling.

There are 3 recordings of this tune.

Johnny Ward's has been added to 9 tunebooks.

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Three settings

1
X: 1
T: Johnny Ward's
R: strathspey
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
d2 B>G d>GB>G|(3ABA F>A D3 D|D2 B>G d>GB>d|g>bf>a e>gf>e:|
e<AB>A e>gf>e|d2 B>G d>GB>d|e<AB>A e>af>f|(3gag (3fgf e>gf>a|
e<AB>A e>gf>e|d2 B>G d>GB>d|e<AB>A e>af>f|(3gag (3fgf e>gf>e||
2
X: 2
T: Johnny Ward's
R: strathspey
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
A2FD ADFD|E2CE A,3G|A2FD A,DFA|1 dfce BdcB:|2 dfce Bdce||
|:BE~E2 BdcB|A2FD A,DFA|BE~E2 Bdce|1 dfce Bdce:|2 dfce BdcB||
3
X: 3
T: Johnny Ward's
R: strathspey
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
d2BG dGBG|A2FA D3c|d2BG DGBd|1 gbfa egfe:|2 gbfa egfa||
|:eA~A2 egfe|d2BG DGBd|eA~A2 egfa|1 gbfa egfa:|2 gbfa egfe||

Two comments

Johnny Ward’s

Another highland from Vincent Campbell from the album ‘The Brass Fiddle’. This is the first in the set, followed by
"Paddy Bartley’s" https://thesession.org/tunes/6606

From the sleeve notes: "Johnny Ward was a fiddler from Gageen Hill in the Croaghs, a mountainour region of great beauty between Glenties and Ballybofey"

This appears on Fisherstreet’s "Out In The Night" as a reel in D, along with the Beauty Spot, which they also transpose down to Amix from it’s original key of Dmix:

X: 1
T: Johnny Ward’s
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
S: Fisherstreet
K: Dmaj
A2FD ADFD|E2CE A,3G|A2FD A,DFA|1 dfce BdcB:|2 dfce Bdce||
|:BE~E2 BdcB|A2FD A,DFA|BE~E2 Bdce|1 dfce Bdce:|2 dfce BdcB||

Transposed into G, that becomes:

X: 1
T: Johnny Ward’s
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
S: Fisherstreet (transposed)
K: Gmaj
d2BG dGBG|A2FA D3c|d2BG DGBd|1gbfa egfe:|2 gbfa egfa||
|:eA~A2 egfe|d2BG DGBd|eA~A2 egfa|1 gbfa egfa:|2 gbfa egfe||