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'''GREENLAND MAN'S TUNE, DA'''. Shetland, "Listening Tune", Shetland Reel or Hornpipe (4/4 time). E Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A tune from the days when Shetland islanders would go whaling off the coast of Greenland. Robin Morton (1976) notes a Scandinavian influence in the tune, while Anderson & Georgeson (1970) state that this "best known of all the Sheltland Reels" bears a strong resemblance to a country dance tune from Jutland, Denmark. There are many variants of the melody. Tom Anderson (1979) remarks:
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''Dis is anidder een brought back fae da Greenland whaling days. Jamsie Laurenson o' ''
''Fetlar tocht he wis a listening tün, and might o' hed Yakki works.'' 
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''Source for notated version'': Willie Hunter (Shetland) [Anderson & Georgeson].
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''Printed sources'': Anderson & Georgeson ('''Da Mirrie Dancers'''), 1970; p. 16. Anderson & Swing ('''Haand Me Doon da Fiddle'''), 1979; No. 27. '''Boys of the Lough''', 1977; p. 20. 
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Philo 1042, Boys of the Lough - "The Piper's Broken Finger" (1976). Transatlantic TRA 311, Boys of the Lough - "The Piper's Broken Finger."</font>
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See also listing at:<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/g09.htm#Grematu]<Br>
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