Annotation:Time We had in Bansha (The)
X:1 T:Time We Had In Bansha, The M:2/2 L:1/8 C:Ed Reavy R:Reel N:The tune commemorates the day the local N:fife and drum corps went to Bansha.It happened over seventy years ago, N:but Ed remembers it as yesterday. Z:Joe Reavy K:D A, ||: D2 FA =cBA=F | ED^CD EFGE | D2 (3FED FAdB | cege fdde | fgaf dfed | =cAG=F EC (3CB,C | DEFG AB=cA |1 G=FEG FDDA, :|2 G=FEG FDDg || |:fgag fddB | =c2 gc acgc | fgaf gfge | cdeg fddf | a^gaf gfge | cded cAGE | D2 (3FED FGAB |1 =cAGE =FDDg :|2 =cAGE D3 ||
TIME WE HAD IN BANSHA, THE. Irish, Reel (cut time). D Major/Mixolydian/Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’. Composed by County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988). According to Ed’s son Joe, the tune commemorates the time the local fife and drum corps visited Bansha (early 19th century).
