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Annotation:Tiger Hornpipe (The)
X: 1 T:Tiger Hornpipe, The B:CRE5.211 (Cornphíopa an Tíogair) F:file ID: cre.5/209tiger N:I couldn't swear to it, but my feeling is that Breathnach N:got this tune from Kerry fiddler Denis Murphy, who during N:a stay in America actually worked in the Bronx Zoo. (For more N:details - bogus, but details - see my epic poem "The Zoo Song" N:at www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/cre/cre.5/zoo_song.pdf, N:or just click on the "Zoo Song" link at the bottom of the previous page.). M:4/4 Q:150 R:hornpipe K:G P:"simplified version" (3DEF|GFGB AGEG|cBcA dedc|BGBd cABG|EGFA GDB,D| G2GB AGEG|cBcA dedc|BGBd cABG|EGFA G2:| Bc|dgBg dgBf|gbaf e2ef|gbaf gedB|cdef gdBc| dgBg dgBf|gbaf e2ef|gbaf gedB|1 cdef g2:|2 cdef g4|] %%vskip P:Source setting (3DEF|GFGB AGEG|cBcA dedc|BGBd (3cBA (3BAG|EGFA (3GDB, (3G,B,D| G2GB AGEG|cBcA dedc|BGBd (3cBA (3BAG|EGFA G2|| Bc|dgBg dgBg|gb (3agf e2e>f|(3gab (3agf (3gfe dB|(3def (3def gdBc| dgBg dgBg|gb (3agf e2e>f|(3gab (3agf (3gfe dB|(3def (3def gdBA|] %%vskip %%vskip %%vskip P:THE ZOO SONG
TIGER HORNPIPE, THE (Cornphíopa an Tíogair). AKA and see "Blue Bonnet (1)," “Frank Roche's Favourite,” “Here Awa',” “John Roche's Favourite,” “Lady Ann Hope (1),” "Mike Coen's Fling," “Miss Thornton's Reel,” “O'Loughlin’s Reel,” "Queen of Clubs," “Salamanca (2),” “Signora Ferze's Hornpipe," "Woodford Fling (2).” Irish, Hornpipe (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A hornpipe setting of the Scottish reel “Lady Ann Hope (1),” attributed to John Pringle. Paul de Grae speculates the title is a whimsy of Denis Murphy’s who worked for a time in the Bronx Zoo, New York, but as Breathnach points out, there is no evidence for this. “Miss Thornton’s Reel” is a related tune. See also the cognate "Signora Ferze's Hornpipe" from County Cork cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman. See also reel settings in Breathnach Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. V (1999, No. 120).
