The Merry Boys Of Greenland reel

Also known as Da Merrie Boys Of Greenland, Da Merry Boys A Greenland, Da Merry Boys Of Greenland, Da Mirrie Boys O Greenland, Da Mirrie Boys O’ Greenland, Da Mirrie Boys Of Greenland, The Merrie Boys Of Greenland, Merry Boys A’ Greenland, The Mirrie Boys Of Greenland.

There are 13 recordings of a tune by this name.

A tune by this name has been recorded together with Oliver Jack (a few times), Sleep Soond Ida Mornin’ (a few times) and Willafjord (a few times).

The Merry Boys Of Greenland has been added to 4 tune sets.

The Merry Boys Of Greenland has been added to 46 tunebooks.

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T: The Merry Boys Of Greenland
R: reel

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Merry Boys of Greenland

Got this off Swarb’s ‘Ceilidh Album’ - it’s great to play at a fair lick with other Shetland reels like Spoot o Skerry and Willafjord

Nice

I like this tune… reminds me of an old USA tune…

Here it is

reminded me of this

Such A Getting Upstairs
https://thesession.org/tunes/7680

Those Shetland tunes really remind me of early American fiddle music.

This ‘reel’ is cognate with the various guises of ‘Dance to your Daddy’ https://thesession.org/tunes/7365/comments

Flut in Dmix works well too

Works well on the flute in DMix too - Don’t know if youll get anyone to play along in that key though…

Mind you that is with a nice thumbhole for the C naturals in the second half, so I don’t know how that would sit ona conventional siomple system flute.

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