The Happy One Step hornpipe

This tune is actually a Cajun one step but I had to choose a hornpipe tempo because there is any Cajun one step options. Sharon Shannon seems to like this one. Even before I listen to ITM I knew this tune because it was on a advert on TV.

Sharon Shannon’s “Blackbird” set ( Padraig O’Keefe’s slide followed by the Happy One Step) is one big reason why I wanted to learn how to play the button accordion.

I know its a really sweet tune. Everybody seem to like it. Pretty hard on the banjo though.

I know it as Willafjord. I think. I might be getting confused with another tune.

i agree with Paul-Kin. difficult enough with banjo

The original recording of this tune can be found on Dennis McGee’s album. Dennis was a Cajun fiddle player from French Louisiana.
http://www.amazon.com/Dennis-McGee/artist/B000APWHZ6/103-3047669-2669423

Folkie Junkie, there is indeed a one step version of Willafjord which appears as sheetmusic at: https://thesession.org/tunes/292 the melodies are hardly the same but the set-rhythm makes the tunes comparable.

The 1st part is pentatonic but the 4th is v present in the hexatonic (7th-less) 2nd part.

The first part is hexatonic. No F.

Found on tune pal

Found by listening to Sharon Shanno: it has surely become her signature tune over the years (that and Galway Girl), and now if you go to one of her gigs, she’ll stop playing and the audience of devoted fans can and will sing the tune (even in Glasgow!) Yes, and as another button accordion player she is one of my icons!

The Dennis McGee original (with 4-bar repeating phrases) was played in GDGD tuning (with A fingering) so the high part was all on the 1st string and the low note was the open string.
So perhaps transposing to A might make it easier on the fiddle.