I stumbled across this lovely English hornpipe in "The Greene Tunebook", a great free collection of tunes downloadable in PDF format from the Ceilidh Society web site (Link). The ABC for The Gloucester Hornpipe is also at the same site:
Code:
X:882
T:Gloucester Hornpipe
C:Trad
G:Hornpipe
M:4/4
L:1/8
E:8
K:G
|:(3DEF|"G"G2 g2 g2 d>B|"C"c>Bc>d e>fg>e|"G"d>BG>B e>dc>B|"C"A>Bc>A "D"G>FE>D|\
"G"G2 g2 g2 d>B|"C"c>Bc>d e>fg>e|"G"d>BG>B "A"e>cA>F|"G"G2 "C"G2 "G"G2::\
A2|"G"B2 B>A B>cd>B|"C"e2 e>d e>fg>e|"G"d>BG>B e>dc>B|"C"A>Bc>A "D"G>FE>D|\
"G"B2 B>A B>cd>B|"C"e2 e>d e>fg>e|"G"d>BG>B "A"e>cA>F|"G"G2 "C"G2 "G"G2:|**
It's a nice lazy type of hornpipe, like a pleasant stroll through a spring meadow.
Here is the tune played on my Mid-Mo:
After recording this, I also noticed another Youtube video of the same tune, played on guitar by the great Phil Beer (one half of Show Of Hands, and normally their fiddler and mandolin player):
Martin