Tune Req: Popeye the Sailor Man; Sailor's Hornpipe

Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Philippa
Date: 28 Feb 99 - 01:57 PM

Alice, Which tune did you hear is about 400 years old, the Sailor's hornpipe, the Trumpet hornpipe (Capt Pugwash) or the tune for "I'm Popeye the sailor man..."?

Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Alice
Date: 28 Feb 99 - 09:39 AM

thanks

Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Barry Finn
Date: 28 Feb 99 - 04:55 AM

Sorry, I should've mention the above comes from Doerflinger's "Shantymen & Shantyboys" & he also has the music. Barry

Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Barry Finn
Date: 28 Feb 99 - 03:05 AM

Words to "The Sailor's Hornpipe"

We'll have another drink till the boat shoves off (2x)
We'll go to mother rackets & we'll pawn our monkey jackets
And we'll have another drink till the boat shoves off

Barry

Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Alice
Date: 23 Feb 99 - 09:45 AM

Just a note, I was told that the tune is about 400 years old.

Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: bill\sables
Date: 23 Feb 99 - 09:41 AM

Just a side line the trad tune for the cartoon "Captain Pugwash" is "The Trumpet Hornpipe"

Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Feb 99 - 08:34 PM

Those two tunes were certainly used on the "Popeye" cartoons, but neither one is the theme song. I wonder if we'll be able to solve this one....
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Bruce O.
Date: 22 Feb 99 - 08:07 PM

That should be Ford's 'Traditional Music of America', 1940 (Da Capo reprint of 1978). I must confess the hornpipe doesn't sound much like the 'Popeye' tune as I remember it.

Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Alice
Date: 22 Feb 99 - 07:46 PM

Thank you Bruce, I expected you would have it.

Subject: Tune Add: SAILOR'S HORNPIPE
From: Bruce O.
Date: 22 Feb 99 - 07:41 PM

X:1
T:Sailor's Hornpipe
S:Ford's 'Traditional Music in America'
Q:120
L:1/8
M:2/4
K:G
B/A/|GG, G,D/C/|B,/G,/B,/D/ GB/G/|AA, A,A/G/|\
F/D/F/A/ de/f/|g/f/e/d/ e/d/c/B/|\
c/B/A/G/ A/G/F/E/|D/G/F/A/ G/B/A/c/|BGG::d/c/|\
B/d/g/d/ B/d/e/d/|ec ce/d/|^c/e/a/e/ c/e/a/g/|fd de/f/|\
g/f/e/d/ e/d/c/B/|c/B/A/G/ A/G/F/E/|D/G/F/A/ G/B/A/c/|BG G:|]

X:2
T:Colledge Hornpipe, Thompson's 120 Hornpipes, c 1775
Q:120
L:1/4
M:C|
K:Bb
(B/A/)|BB,2F/E/|(D/F/)B2 ((3 d/c/B/)|cC2(c/B/)|\
A/c/ (ff)g/a/|b/a/g/f/ g/f/e/d/|e/c/d/e/ B/A/G/F/|\
G/B/A/c/ B/d/c/e/|d(BB)::(F/E/)|D/F/B/F/ D/F/B/F/|\
G(EE)(G/F/)|E/G/c/G/ E/G/c/G/|A(FF)(e/d/)|\
e/f/(gg/)f/e/d/|e/c/d/e/ B/A/G/F/|\
(3 G/A/B/ (3 A/B/c/ (3 B/c/d/ (3 c/d/e/|d(BB):|]

Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: SeanM
Date: 22 Feb 99 - 06:37 PM

I'm not sure of the title past the point where lyrics were added, but the original music has apparently been around for a while as a variant of the 'Sailor's Hornpipe'

Subject: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Alice
Date: 22 Feb 99 - 01:47 PM

What is the traditional title for the tune used for Popeye The Sailor Man? (No need to post the tune, we all know what it sounds like.)