The Rocky Road To Mount Collins polka

By Dan Murphy

Also known as Dan Murphy’s, The Road To Glen, The Road To Mount Collins, The Road To Mountcollins, The Rocky Road To Mountcollins, The Rocky Road To Mt. Collins.

There are 5 recordings of this tune.

The Rocky Road To Mount Collins has been added to 2 tune sets.

The Rocky Road To Mount Collins has been added to 27 tunebooks.

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Five settings

1
X: 1
T: The Rocky Road To Mount Collins
R: polka
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Amaj
|:E2 FE|A2 EA|c2 Bc|BA F2|
E2 FE|A2 EA|c2 Bc|BA A2:|
|:ce ed/e/|fe cB|ce A>B|cB BA|
ce ed/e/|fe cB|ce cB|BA A2:|
2
X: 2
T: The Rocky Road To Mount Collins
R: polka
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
|:G/E/|D>E DE|G2 DG|Bd/B/ AA/B/|AG E/F/G/E/|
D>E DE|G2 GD/G/|Bd/B/ AA/B/|1 AG G:|2 AG G3/2||
|:A/|Bd d^c/d/|ed BA|Bd GG/A/|Bd AG/A/|
[1 Bd- d^c/d/|e/f/e/d/ B/A/G|B/c/d AA/B/|AG G3/2:|
[2 Bd- d^c/d/|ed B/A/G/A/|Bd A>B|AG G||
3
X: 3
T: The Rocky Road To Mount Collins
R: polka
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Amaj
|:F/|E2 EF|A2 EA|c2 B>c|BA A/G/F|
E2 EF|A2- AE/A/|c2 B>c|BA A3/2:|
|:B/|ce e^d/e/|fe cB|ce AA/B/|ce BA/B/|
ce- e^d/e/|f/g/f/e/ c/B/A/B/|ce B>c|BA A3/2:|
4
X: 4
T: The Rocky Road To Mount Collins
R: polka
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Amaj
|:E2 FE|A4|c2 Bc|BA FA|
E2 FE|A4|c2 Bc|BA A2:|
|:ce ed/e/|fe cB|ce AB|cB B2|
ce ed/e/|fe cB|ce cB|A2 A2:|
5
X: 5
T: The Rocky Road To Mount Collins
R: polka
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Amaj
E2 FE|A2 AB|cA Bc|BA F2|
E2 FE|A2 AB|cA Bc|BA A2:|
|:ce ec/e/|fe (3cBA|ce eA|cB B2|
ce ec/e/|fe (3cBA|ce Bc|BA A2:|

Nine comments

Another nameless polka ~ 🙂 ~ and, yes, familiar, though I have a very different take on the A-part. I’ll have to set aside some time, maybe this weekend, to see if I can chase up names for your two recent gan ainms. Curiously, I was listening to Matt Cranitch & friends this morning. I enjoy their musicianship, though they do tend to push things for the punters, tempo-wise… Matt is also a fairly prolific composer of polkas…

I love it that a GHB player on Skye is playing Irish polkas. I so wish we’d headed up there for the Easter holidays, to chase you up Bogman, though I do have a preference Islay malts. That being admitted, I’ve never had a single malt I didn’t appreciate. There’s a love and appreciation for a bit of Scottish swing in Ireland as well, a long history of it…

Gan Ainm

I heard this tune at the Local Pub in Ennis in 2016. Found it in tunepal as Gan Ainm but none of the tunes I saw under that name here in thesession seem to be the same tune.

Re: Gan Ainm

Road to Mountcollins composed by Dan Murphy… Cracking tune

Re: The Road To Mountcollins

thanks Tommy!

Re: Rocky Road To Mount Collins

Indeed it is! Thank you very much!