Annotation:Democratic Hornpipe (1)
X: 10613 T: DEMOCRATIC HORNPIPE [1] C: %R: reel B: Elias Howe "The Musician's Companion" Part 1 1842 p.61 #3 S: http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Musician's_Companion_(Howe,_Elias) Z: 2015 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: 2/4 L: 1/16 K: Bb % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - G>A |\ BABc dcdf | gfga fabg | fdba fdcd | B2 G2 GFDF | G2 G>A BABG | F2 F>G AGFD | GABc dcBA | B2G2G2 :| |: g2 |\ gfdf gabg | gfdf GFDF | BABc dcde | fcdB AGFD | BFdB AFec | BFdB AFec | dfga bagf | d2g2g2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
DEMOCRATIC HORNPIPE [1]. AKA and see "Galway Bay Hornpipe." American, Hornpipe. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first published by Howe in 1842 as the "Democratic Hornpipe." Francis O'Neill included a version titled "Galway Bay" in his 1903 Music of Ireland collection that was different only in some accidentals and in a shift from 2/4 to cut-time notation. There is no evidence that the tune's origin was in Ireland, and it is well known that O'Neill borrowed and re-titled many tunes from Howe's collections. Pre- and post-Civil War southern whites largely voted for Democrats, but so did most Irish and Irish-American residents of New York and other northern cities, where Democratic Party organizations such as William H. "Boss" Tweed's Tammany Hall cultivated the immigrant vote.
