Home Sweet Home Schottische
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X:23 T:Home Sweet Home Schottische % NFF Book 2022 % Bush Traditions recording played by Ray Mulligan C:Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1787-1856) S:collected from Arthur Foster, Killarney Vale, NSW S:John Meredith collection, NLA Bib ID 645243 B:J Meredith, R Covell & P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987, p265 N:The tune was originally composed as a waltz by Henry Bishop in 1823. H:"Collecting from Arthur Foster was akin to watching a magician pulling rabbits H:out of a hat. Almost every other item was a surprise. When he announced H:'Home Sweet Home' I expected the usual mournful rendition, but instead he H:played an arrangement that must have poor Sir Henry Bishop spinning in his grave. H:'Home Sweet Home' arranged by bushman Alec Broadis as a lively schottische. H:Never before had I realised that the old tune contained passages that sounded H:like 'Waltzing' Matilda' and others like excerpts from 'The Drovers dream'". H:John Meredith, FSA vol 2, p264 F:https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Home_Sweet_Home_(1) R:Schottische M:4/4 L:1/8 K:G G>A|"G"B>BB2"C"c>Bc2|"G"d>d d<dB2d>B|"D7"c2-c>Bc2A2 |"G"G>A B>cd2G>A| B>BB2"C"c>Bc2|"G"d>d d<dB2d>B|"D7"c2-c>B c<BA2|"G"G4z2B<d| "G"g>gg2"D7"f2"C"e2|"G"d>d d<dB2d2|"D7"c>c c>Bc2A2|"G"G>A B>cd2(3def| "G"g2g2"D7"f2"C"e2|"G"d>d d<dB2d>B|"D7"c2-c>Bc2A2|"G"G6:||
Home Sweet Home Schottische - played by Ray Mulligan
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| Arthur Foster | John Meredith Collection |