Annotation:Tom is gone to the Fair

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X:1 T:Tom is gone to the fair M:C L:1/8 R:Hornpipe S:Joyce – Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G B>A|G2 DG BGBd|c>BAB cdef|g>fgd ecBG|EcBA GFED| G2 DG BGBd|c>BAB cdef|g>fec BGED|E2G2G2:| |:Bd|e2 dB GBdg|fdcA GFED|EA A2 B>AGE|EcBA GFED| G>FGA BABd|cBcd edef|g>fec BGED|E2G2G2:|


TOM IS GONE TO THE FAIR. Irish, Hornpipe (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Compare with the New Brunswick tune "Oscar's Hornpipe" AKA "Timber Tom." The tune is structurally similar and the first strains are somewhat distanced but cognate, while the second strains share less melodic correspondences but which are nevertheless similar in melodic contour.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - "From memory, as I heard it played in early days" (Joyce).

Printed sources : - Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 11, pp. 8‑9.





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