Captain Bing polka

on request.
learned from Bulmer and Sharpley “Music of Ireland” about twenty years ago , might not be exactly taht version anymore. This is a composition by Nathaniel Gow (1764-1831).
Our set goes on with Tom McVicars and Dennis Murphy’s Polka.

Here’s some other ways with this lovely old polka ~

X: 2
T: Captain Byng / Bing
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
|: g/a/g/f/ g>d | BG GA/B/ | c/B/A a>g | fd ef |
g>f gd | BG G2 | c/B/A dF | G2 G2 :|
|: BG dG | BG GA/B/ | c/B/A eA | cA E/F/G/A/ |
BG d>G | BG GA/B/ | c/B/A dF | G2 G2 :|

Compiled & published by Dave Bulmer & Neil Sharpley, 1974
ISBN: 0-9503784-10

Page 20, tune #74: “Captain Byng”
~ very close to swisspiper’s transcription

X: 3
T: Captain Byng
S: Music from Ireland: Volume Two, Bulmer & Sharpley
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
|: g>f gd | BG GA/B/ | c/B/A a>g | fd ef |
g>f gd | BG GA/B/ | c/B/A dF |[1 G2 G>d :|[2 G2 G>A ||
|: BG dG | BG GA/B/ | c/B/A eA | cA A>c |
BG dG | BG GA/B/ | c/B/A dF |[1 G2 G>A :|[2 G2 G>d |]

See https://thesession.org/tunes/1400

This setting from the great Sliabh Luachra fiddler Julia (Murphy) Clifford and her son, fluter Billy Clifford. The two recorded it on the LP “Ceol as Sliabh Luachra” along with another tune also attributed to Neily Cleere ( https://thesession.org/tunes/3128 ). While I don’t know who the Neily Cleere in question was, there was a fiddler around in Killenaule, Co. Tipperary during the ‘60s that was the inspiration for a Sean Ryan composition. Julia and Billy played a few other Tipperary polkas, like the Upperchurch Polkas, that makes the connection seemingly more valid. The second Neily Cleere tune is very tonal and has been attributed to Patrick O’Keeffe, but it is no stretch that Patrick got it from Julia, or Neily. Regardless, they are lovely tunes and are more than worth learning.

Pólca 4 version

Our version:
https://slainte1.bandcamp.com/track/capt-bing-tom-mcvicar-s-denis-murphy-s-polka

The setting Thady Quill posted from Julia Clifford, transposed to D; so that it can be played on 10 key melodeon.