Annotation:James Gannon's Barn Dance (2)
X: 1 T:James Gannon's T:Gannon's Favourite R:barndance Z:id:hn-barndance-8 M:C| L:1/8 F:http://norbeck.nu/abc/i/hnbarn0.abc 2023-03-27 014301 UT K:G B2AB e2dB | d2cA E2FG | AGAB cAFA | GABG D2B,2 | B2AB e2dB | d2cA E2FG | AGAB cAFA |1 G2B2 G4 :|2 G2g2 g2gf || |: e^def gfga | b2d2 d3B | cBAB cdef | g2B2 d2gf | e^def gfga | b2d2 d3B | cBAB cAFA |1 G2g2 g2gf :|2 G2B2 G4 ||
JAMES GANNON'S (BARNDANCE) [2]. AKA and see "Chaffpool Post (1) (The)," "Merry Priest (The)," "Shannon Waves." Irish, Barndance. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman was the first to record this tune, in New York in 1927. It has long been popular among Cape Breton fiddlers, according to Paul Stewart Cranford, and has been recorded by Angus Chisholm, Mike MacDougall, Howie MacDonald, and Kinnon Beaton, among others. The melody appears as "Merry Priest (The)" in County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler Ed Reavy's book The Music of Corktown, which documents some of the tunes popular among Irish fiddlers in Philadelphia in the mid-20th century.
