Paddy on the Turnpike
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Paddy on the Turnpike" is part of a large <br> and varied tune family whose members go by numerous titles with settings<br> in various modes, from major (ionian) to dorian as well as mixed modes.<br> Other members of the family include<br> "The Bunch of Keys", "The Flowers of Limerick" and "The Ewe (or Ewie) with the Crooked Horn".<br> The tune is also known as<br> "Half Past Four", "Indian Nation", "Jenny on the Railroad", "The Mills are Grinding",<br> "Old Town Reel", "Paddy on the Handcar", "Paddy on the Handlecar", "Pigeon on the Gatepost",<br> "Reel de la bombarde", "Reel du plombier" or "Telephone Reel".<br> It is an Irish, Scottish, Canadian and American old-time reel in G Major/Mixolydian,<br> G Mixolydian/Dorian (Bégin, Perlman), G Minor/Dorian (Brody, Cole, Howe, Miller & Perron,<br> Winner), A Dorian (Bayard), A Minor (Kennedy & Raven) or A Major or A Mixolydian (Silverberg,<br> Thede).<br> It is played in standard or AEae fiddle tuning. The parts are played AABB (most versions),<br> AA'BB (Phillips) or AA’BB’ (Perlman). <br> I first learned this from the Electra Records Old Time Banjo Project.<br> The banjo tab is my approximation of a version playing the B part up the neck.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944),<br> Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Bégin's Fiddle Music in the Ottawa Valley: Dawson Girdwood (1985),<br> Bohrer's Vic Kibler: Adirondack Fiddler (1992),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Christeson's Old Time Fiddler's Repertory, vol. 1 (1973),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> DeVille's Universal Album (1912),<br> Krassen's Masters of Old-Time Fiddling (1983),<br> Henebry's A Handbook of Irish Music (1928),<br> Henebry's Irish Music (1903),<br> Howe's Musician's Omnibus, No. 3 (1865),<br> Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune-Book, vol. 2 (1954),<br> Lowinger's Bluegrass Fiddle (1974),<br> Miller & Perron's New England Fiddler's Repertoire (1983),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996),<br> Stanford/Petrie's Complete Collection (1905),<br> Phillips' Fiddle Case Tunebook: Old Time Southern (1989),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Scanlon's The Violin Made Easy and Attractive (1923),<br> Silberberg's Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Thede's The Fiddle Book (1967) and<br> Septimus Winner's Excelsior Collection for the Violin (1864).<br> It was recorded by Red Steely and the Red Headed Fiddlers,<br> Kenny Baker on Farmyard Swing,<br> Joe Greene on Joe Greene's Fiddle Album,<br> Bobby Hicks on Texas Crapshooter,<br> The Red Headed Fiddlers on Old-Time Fiddle Classics, vol. 2,<br> The Dillards with Byron Berline on Pickin' and Fiddlin',<br> Frank Ferrel on Yankee Dreams: ‘Wicked Good Fiddling from New England’ (1990).<br> Roger Sprung on Grassy Licks,<br> Thomas Hunter on Deep in Tradition,<br> Banish Misfortune on A Health to the Company (1981),<br> Richard Lieberson on Flat Picking Guitar Festival,<br> Allan Block on Alive and Well and Fiddling,<br> Glen Smith on Say Old Man (1990),<br> Berline, Bush and O'Conner on In Concert,<br> Wilson Douglas on The Right Hand Fork of Rush's Creek (1975),<br> Joe Cormier on Scottish Fiddle Music of Cape Breton (1974),<br> Graham Townsend on Le Violin/The Fiddle,<br> Natalie MacMaster on My Roots are Showing (2000),<br> Andy McGann & Paul Brady on Andy McGann & Paul Brady,<br> Benny and Jerry Thomasson on The Weiser Reunion: A Jam Session (1993),<br> Wendy MacIsaac on That’s What You Get (1998) and<br> The Hoover Uprights on Known for their Reputation (2006).<br>
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