"The Hawk", also known as "The Bells of St. Louis" is a Scottish and English hornpipe in E Major. The parts are played AABB. An early 19th century hornpipe composed by James Hill (c. 1811-1853, Gateshead, Northumberland, near Newcastle), in all probability named after a Tyneside pub called The Hawk, on the Bottle Bank, Gateshead, where Hill made his living for a time as a fiddler (Hill also wrote a tune for the Bottle Bank, where he lived). Hill, who named some of his tunes after various local pubs (and who was himself a publican for a while), was born in Dundee, Scotland. "The Hawk" is one of the more celebrated tunes from a composer known for his hornpipes (although this tune is often heard played as a reel). Hill also composed "The High Level Hornpipe" and "The Newcastle Hornpipe", both in this section. The Irish group De Danann recorded the tune as a reel entitled "The Bells of St. Louis" on their album Mist Covered Mountain. Alistair Anderson played the tune in the key of G (Hill wrote it in 'E'), and Shetland versions are in D major. Irish versions are in both 'D' and 'E' and tend to be played as reels. It was printed in Bain's 50 Fiddle Solos (1989), Banalari's Celtic Encyclopedia (1999), Cranford's Winston Fitzgerald (1997), Dixon's The Lads Like Beer (1987), Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988), Köhler’s Violin Repository, Book Second (1881-1885), Miller's Fiddler's Throne (2004) and Northumbrian Pipers' Society's The Fiddle Music of James Hill (2005). It was recorded by Florence Burns on Scottish Traditional Fiddle Music (1978) and Alistair Anderson (with fiddler Aly Bain) on Alistair Anderson Plays the English Concertina (1972).