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The Tailor’s Twist hornpipe

Also known as The Jolly Butchers, The Tailor’s Thimble, The Taylor’s Twist.

There are 78 recordings of this tune.

This tune has been recorded together with

The Tailor’s Twist appears in 4 other tune collections.

The Tailor’s Twist has been added to 41 tune sets.

The Tailor's Twist has been added to 353 tunebooks.

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Five settings

1
X: 1
T: The Tailor's Twist
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:FE|DA, FD AF dA|Bg ed cb ag|fe dc Bg ed|(3cdc (3BcB (3ABA (3GFE|
DA, FD AF dA|Bg ed cb ag|fe dc Bg ec|d/c/d dc d2:|
|:fg|~a3f df af|ba gf eA ce|{f}~g3e cd ef|(3gag (3fgf eg fe|
df ec dD FA|B/A/B ed cb ag|fe dc Bg ec|d/c/d dc d2:|
2
X: 2
T: The Tailor's Twist
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:F>E|D>A,F>D A>Fd>A|B>ge>d c>ba>g|f>ed>c B>ge>d|(3cdc (3BcB A>GF>E|
D>AF>D A2 d>A|B>ge>d c>ba>g|f>ed>c B>ge>c|d2 d>c d2:|
|:f>g|a^gaf d2 (3f=ga|b>ag>f e>Ac>e|g>fg>e c2 (3def|(3gag (3fgf e2 (3gfe|
d2 e>c d>D (3FGA|(3BcB (3ged c>ba>g|f>ed>c B2 (3gec|1 (3ded c>e d>e:|2 d2 [A2d2] [D2d2]||
3
X: 3
T: The Tailor's Twist
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:FE|DA FD AF dA|Bg ed ce ag|fe dc BG ed|cA Bc AG{FA}FD|
DA FD AD dA|Bg ed ce ag|fe dc BG ec|df ec d2:|
|:fg|~abaf de fg|ba {a}gf eA ce|{f}~gf gd cd ef|ga fg eg fe|
d2 (3gfe dD FA|Bg ed ce ag|fe dc BG ec|d/c/d ec d2:|
4
X: 4
T: The Tailor's Twist
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
F>E|D>A,F>D A>Fd>A|B>ge>d c>ba>g|f>ed>c B>fe>d|c>dB>c A>GF>E|
D>A,F>D A>Fd>A|B>ge>d c>ba>g|f>ed>c B>ge>c|d2 (3edc d2:|
|:f>g|a3 f d>ef>a|b>ag>f e>aA>a|g2 g2 (3 Bcd e>f|g>af>g e>df>e|
d2 (3fed d>DE>A|B>ge>d c>ba>g|f>ed>c B>ge>c|d2 (3edc d2:|
5
X: 5
T: The Tailor's Twist
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:(3gfA|DA FD AF dA|Bg ed ce ag|fe dc Bg ed|ce Bc AF GE|
DA FD AF dA|Bg ed ce ag|fe dc Bg ec|dz dc d2:|
|:fg|abaf df af|ba gf eA ce|fg gA (3Bcd ef|ge fd eg fe|
d2 (3gfe dA FA|Bg ed ce ag|fA dA Bg ec|dz dc d2:|

Nine comments

I had a Tommy People’s instructional book once upon a time. I learned this hornpipe from there. Since then - I lost the tune. Thanks for the refresher!

This is a great hornpipe especially when those trio’s are single bowed.

The Tailor’s Twist

This tune is also played by Liam O’Flynn on Planxty’s “The Woman I Loved so Well”.

The Tailor’s Twist, X:4

This is one of those hornpipes that you hear now and again in sessions, like it, and promise yourself you’ll learn it… Taken from ‘A Fine Selection of Over 200 Irish Traditional Tunes for Sessions’, compiled by David Speers with a Forward by Matt Cranitch. It was collected with the title The Tailor’s Thimble.

Re: The Tailor’s Twist/The Jolly Butchers

I learned the Tailor’s Twist a few years ago. It’s a lovely hornpipe. Yesterday in my ancient original Kerr’s Collection of the Popular Tunes of All Nations I discovered the hornpipe in the collection as The Jolly Butchers, perhaps the original name. The only tiny difference is the 2nd bar of the B part resolves in d instead of a.

Re: The Tailor’s Twist

I picked this up from Brian Hughes’s album “This Day 20 Years” following Fly By Night in a set. It is a really nice whistle tune which will test your fingering skills.