Annotation:Firefly Hornpipe
X: 6 T: the FIREFLY %R: hornpipe B: Jean White "100 Popular Hornpipes, Reels, Jigs and Country Dances", Boston 1880 p.3 F: http://www.loc.gov/resource/sm1880.09124.0#seq-1 Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: C| L: 1/8 K: Bb % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (3FGA |\ B>AB>c B>dc>B | A>BG>A F>GE>F |\ D>FB>F G>[eE]e>d | (3cdc (3BAG F2 (3FGA | B>AB>c B>dc>B | A>BG>A F>GE>F |\ D>FB>d d>cB>A | c2B2 B2 :| |: F>E |\ (3DFB d2 (3Bdf b2 | b3a g>fe>d |\ e>de>f e>dc>B | A>cB>G F2F>E | (3DFB d2 (3Bdf b2 | b3a g>fe>d |\ e>dc>B A>fg>a | b2B2 B2 H:| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
FIREFLY HORNPIPE, THE. Scottish, English, American, Canadian; Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune may perhaps have an American provenance, picked up by James Kerr from one of the Elias Howe publications, and from Kerr to other Scottish publications. Cape Breton fiddler Scotty Fitzgerald may have learned the tune from either Scottish sources or from a Howe publication, but he popularized it among Cape Breton fiddlers.
