Annotation:Dan Sullivan's Favorite (2)
X:54 T:Dan Sullivan's Favourite [2] R:hornpipe D:Sean Ryan: Take the Air Z:id:hn-hornpipe-54 M:C| K:G ~G3A BAGF|G2 (3Bcd g2 (3Bcd|gdBd ecAG|FGAB cAdB| (3GAG DG BAGF|G2 (3Bcd g2 (3Bcd|gdBd ecAF|1 GBAF G2 D2:|2 GBAF G2FG|| K:D |:ABAG FAde|fedc d2cd|eA~A2 gfed|eA~A2 gfed| ABAG FAde|fedc d2fg|(3aba (3gag (3fgf (3efe|1 dfec d2 FG:|2 (3ded (3cdc (3BcB (3ABA||
DAN SULLIVAN'S FAVORITE [2] (Rogha Dhónaill Uí Shúilleabháin). AKA and see "Gypsy Hornpipe (7)." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody was recorded by County Kerry fiddler Michael Hanafin for Columbia Records in New York in 1927. Hanafin was a member of Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band (hence the title), a Boston based group led by pianist Dan Sullivan (whose fiddling father is mentioned in O'Neill's Irish Minstrels and Musicians--see "Dan Sullivan's Favorite (1)). In the late 1940's the tune was recorded and published in Boston by button accordion player Jerry O'Brien (mentor of Boston's Joe Derrane), albeit under the title "Gypsy Hornpipe."
See also a Cape Breton version under the title "Doug MacMaster's." The first strain of "Dan Sullivan's" is cognate with "Fancy (The)," printed in W.B. Laybourn's Köhlers’ Violin Repository Book 1 (1881, p. 67).
