Drover's Journey Home (The)

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 Theme code Index    13H1H2H 7472H
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    Biography:Ed Reavy
 Region    Ireland
 Genre/Style    Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    D
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    2/2
 History    
 Structure    AA'BB'
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Joe Reavy
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy (The)
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 68, pp. 74-75
 Year of publication/Date of MS    n.d.
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
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X: 1
T:The Drover's Journey Home
R:reel
C:Ed Reavy
M:2/2
L:1/8
Z:Joe Reavy
N:The drover was a part of the tradition that Ed felt
N:should be remembered. He drove his herds across the cold,
N:dark fields of that ancient land much as his father did
N:before him. A part of that story is told beautifully
N:in Padraic Colum's poem "The Drover."
K:D
D (3gfd dfed | cAGA cdec | dcAG FGAE | FEDB, CA,G,B, | 
A,2 DE =FD=CD | =FEFG A^cde | (3fga gf dcAF |1 GE=cG EDCE :|2 
GE=G EDD^c || d2 ad bdad | (3ddd ag efge | d2 ad bdad | 
=cAGA cdec | d2 ad bdad | (3ddd ag efge | abag efge | 
dB=cG EDD^c || d2 ad bdad | (3ddd ag efge | d2 ad bdad | =cAGA cdec | 
d2 ad Adad | (3ddd ag efge | abag efge | dB=cG EDCE ||

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