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

22 Feb 99 - 01:47 PM (#59601)
Subject: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Alice

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.)

22 Feb 99 - 06:37 PM (#59665)
Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: SeanM

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'

22 Feb 99 - 07:41 PM (#59682)
Subject: Tune Add: SAILOR'S HORNPIPE
From: Bruce O.

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):|]

22 Feb 99 - 07:46 PM (#59684)
Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Alice

Thank you Bruce, I expected you would have it.

22 Feb 99 - 08:07 PM (#59689)
Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Bruce O.

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.

22 Feb 99 - 08:34 PM (#59693)
Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Joe Offer

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-

23 Feb 99 - 09:41 AM (#59791)
Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: bill\sables

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

23 Feb 99 - 09:45 AM (#59793)
Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Alice

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

28 Feb 99 - 03:05 AM (#60676)
Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Barry Finn

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

28 Feb 99 - 04:55 AM (#60679)
Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Barry Finn

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

28 Feb 99 - 09:39 AM (#60689)
Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Alice

thanks

28 Feb 99 - 01:57 PM (#60726)
Subject: RE: Trad title (Popeye)
From: Philippa

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..."?