- Style
- Celtic
- Tradition
- Irish
- Form
- Hornpipe
- Key
- D
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle
In the public domain. Source
Music
90bpm
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Chord chart
History
In parts of Britain a harvest home was a community dance held once the crops were in. The hornpipe shows up in English manuscripts from the 1820s and 1830s, in Cumbria, Northumberland and Lancashire, and in Ireland it is also called "The Cork Hornpipe." In Ohio it went by "Cincinnati Hornpipe."
Scottish fiddler William Craig recorded it on an Edison cylinder in 1909. Painter and fiddler William Sidney Mount of Long Island wrote it down in his manuscripts in the mid 1800s. In Irish sessions today it is usually paired with "The Boys of Bluehill," and both are counted as good beginner tunes.