Tune Req: The little beggarman

Subject: Tune Req: The little beggarman
From: Maffet
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 09:24 AM

Hello, I have one little shy question :-)
I play for half of year one my favorite tune which is Little beggerman (Red haired boy)- hornpipe. Original sheet music come from some harp magazine with free arrangement, but my teacher transposed tune for me to C. Now I haven't original print, so I dont know in which key it was and I have only hand written tune, which I really love to play.

I searched in www.thesession.org, but there I found only reel tune of the same name. So I searched at another place and I have found another sheet music for hornpipe in D for little beggarman, and few sounds to compare. It has the same beginning, but the second part is diffrent again. Is there any other version of this hornpipe tune?
:-)

Anyway I printed reel today too as it's really lovely tune.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The little beggarman
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 09:57 AM

Redhaired Boy, at JC's Tunefinder. Take your pick.Everbody I know plays it in A to G.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The little beggarman
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 07:31 PM

Try looking for Gilderoy in J C's

Gerry

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The little beggarman
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 11:22 PM

It's a fun song to sing, too--though the band gets miffed when I ask if they can do it in D, and slow it down just a hair...so I wind up singing it Acapulco.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The little beggarman
From: Maffet
Date: 22 Oct 03 - 05:53 AM

Gilderoy. 8-)
Thank you, thank you. I will print it and compare at home. I am not on the level to imagine music from sheets, even I found some sound sample on internet with gilderoy and it sounds similar.
Thank you again.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The little beggarman
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 22 Oct 03 - 06:46 AM

Glad to be of assistance

Gerry

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The little beggarman
From: GUEST,Les B.
Date: 22 Oct 03 - 04:17 PM

Mark - don't feel bad. I too had to switch "Little Beggerman" from A to D, and slow it down. But it's a great song to sing in that key. For fiddle and mandolin players it's just a matter of moving down a set of strings. More of a problem for guitar and banjo, though !

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The little beggarman
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 23 Oct 03 - 02:38 AM

Mark---maybe you mean "unaccomplished"--[too late--I'm behind the sideboard!]