The Green Island hornpipe

Another grea hornpipe from Liam O’Flynn

I learnt this tune at the Joeseph Brown festival in Gort Co.Galway this year.The ending of the start and the turn were a bit different though.

|BCD’ C#E’ D’F’E’G’|F#’_(A’F’) D’_D’_||

Page 52 called Old HornpipeX:1
T:Old Hornpipe
M:C
L1/8
R:hornpipe
K:Dmaj
|:A|dcdA Bcde|gfed cBAG|FAdf gfed |
|d2 A2A2Bc|dAeA fAgA|agfe dcBA|dfeg faeg|f2 d2 d2:|
|:fg|agfe defg|b2 e2 e2 ed|cAeA gfed|
|c2 A2 A2 Bc|dAeA fAgA|agfe dcBA|dfeg faeg|f2 d2 d2:|

This hornpipe also appears in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, as "Myopia", and it can be found on the Irish Traditional Music Archive’s website here: https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/score/ryans-855 .

The tune is also duplicated in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, as "Babbit’s", and it can be found on the Irish Traditional Music Archive’s website here: https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/score/ryans-896 .