"The Drunken Sailor Hornpipe", in Gaelic ("Mairnealac Meisceamail"), also known as "The Groves" is an Irish hornpipe in G Dorian (Vallely, Philips) or A Dorian. The parts are played AABB (Phillips), AABBCCDDEE (O'Neill, Vallely).
It is perhaps slightly more common in the tradition in the key of G Minor.
Parts of this tune bring to mind "The Rights of Man".
It was printed in O'Neill's O'Neill's Irish Music (1915), O'Neill's's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), Phillips' Fiddlecase Tunebook: British Isles (1989) and Vallely's Learn to Play the Fiddle with Armagh Pipers Club (1990).
It was recorded Jimmy Powers, Paddy Cronin on Kerry's Own Paddy Cronin (1977), Tommy Potts on The Liffey Banks (1972) and Paddy Glackin & Jolyon Jackson on Hidden Ground (1980) (a six-part version).