Drover's Journey Home (The)

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Theme code Index	13H1H2H 7472H
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Composer/Core Source	Biography:Ed Reavy
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/2
History
Structure	AA'BB'
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Joe Reavy
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy (The)
Tune and/or Page number	No. 68, pp. 74-75
Year of publication/Date of MS	n.d.
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X: 1
T:The Drover's Journey Home
R:reel
C:Ed Reavy
M:2/2
L:1/8
Z:Joe Reavy
N:The drover was a part of the tradition that Ed felt
N:should be remembered. He drove his herds across the cold,
N:dark fields of that ancient land much as his father did
N:before him. A part of that story is told beautifully
N:in Padraic Colum's poem "The Drover."
K:D
D (3gfd dfed | cAGA cdec | dcAG FGAE | FEDB, CA,G,B, | 
A,2 DE =FD=CD | =FEFG A^cde | (3fga gf dcAF |1 GE=cG EDCE :|2 
GE=G EDD^c || d2 ad bdad | (3ddd ag efge | d2 ad bdad | 
=cAGA cdec | d2 ad bdad | (3ddd ag efge | abag efge | 
dB=cG EDD^c || d2 ad bdad | (3ddd ag efge | d2 ad bdad | =cAGA cdec | 
d2 ad Adad | (3ddd ag efge | abag efge | dB=cG EDCE ||

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