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Thread #169613   Message #4109222
Posted By: Felipa
07-Jun-21 - 03:50 PM
Thread Name: Any May songs?
Subject: What about a tune called The First of May?

FIRST OF MAY HORNPIPE

I pressed send by accident
The First of May hornpipe does have several other names
info from Dick Glasgow's video notes
"The hornpipe was published around 1826 in Scotland in Anderson's Fifty New Scottish and Irish Reels and Hornpipes under the title 'Lady Harrington's Reel'.
"The melody was employed as the vehicle for the song 'The Little Skillet Pot'/'Colcannon', composed by 78 rpm-era singer and uilleann piper Shaun O'Nolan."

tune sheets:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/First_of_May_(1)

https://thesession.org/tunes/1627

Does the Colcannon song qualify as a May song if sung to the tune of the First of May? (I think that would be stretching it)