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Annotation:Listowel Hornpipe
X: 1 T:The Listowel Hornpipe N:This tune is also known as "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine" (or "Alps") N:and "Mick McGuire." M:4/4 L:1/8 K:Amin |:EG|AGAB AGEG|cd (3edc d2 eg|aged cdec|dcAE G2 cB| AGcB AGEG|cd (3edc d2 eg|aged cBAG|EAAG A2:| |:eg|aged cdef|gage g2 eg|aged cdec|dcAE G2 cB| AGcB AGEG|cd (3edc d2 eg|aged (3cBA (3BAG|E2 A2 A2:|
LISTOWEL HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (2)," "First Light of Day," "From Galway to Dublin (Town)," "Mick McGuire." Irish, Hornpipe. A hornpipe version of "Let Mr. McGuire Sit Down." Some similarities to the American variant "Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mountains." The tune was recorded in 1929 by Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band under the title "From Galway to Dublin," which features a vocal describing a train trip form west to east Ireland. Sullivan was a pianist from Boston, who, according to Philippe Varlet and Dick Spottswood, worked full-time as a salesman for the Steinway piano company, and who recorded some 100 sides in the 78 RPM era. Johnny Cronin and Joe "Banjo" Burke recorded the tune in as "First Light of Day." "Listowel Hornpipe" was recorded in the 1950's by New York fiddler Jackie Roche, who had been a student of James Morrison.
