DEMOCRATIC HORNPIPE [1]. AKA and see "Galway Bay Hornpipe." American, Hornpipe. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first published by Howe in 1842 as the "Democratic Hornpipe." Francis O'Neill included a version titled "Galway Bay" in his 1903 Music of Ireland collection that was different only in some accidentals and in a shift from 2/4 to cut-time notation. There is no evidence that the tune's origin was in Ireland, and it is well known that O'Neill borrowed and re-titled many tunes from Howe's collections. Pre- and post-Civil War southern whites largely voted for Democrats, but so did most Irish and Irish-American residents of New York and other northern cities, where Democratic Party organizations such as William H. "Boss" Tweed's Tammany Hall cultivated the immigrant vote.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 91. Howe (First Part of the Musician's Companion), 1842; p. 61. Howe (Musician's Omnibus No. 1), 1863; p. 45. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 80. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 125.
