Okay we have winners. 

It's not just the intro to the Popeye cartoon theme, or the little riffs played when they show Skipper and Gilligan in the Gilligan's Island theme.

The name of the tune is The Sailor's Hornpipe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.....s_Hornpipe

In order of PM'ing their answers:

AdverseD

KindaScratchy

soma5

Mr. Jim

Whoever wants to show off a little or contribute otherwise, please post your audio, video, sheet music, remarks, anecdotes, etc.

Thank you!

Kurt

Worldfiddler said 
 http://worldfiddlemusic.com/gu.....ipe-01.mp3

 

Thanks, Mr. Jim.  I wish I could do that.  But I would have done it slower to allow for foot stomping and hand clapping.  Actually for some time into the future, I have no choice but to do it slowly if at all.

Thanks everybody for helping and playing.

I wrote up some sheet music for The Sailor's Hornpipe in the key of A.

I worked from the following rousing video:

which itself has a brief shot of some sheet music at 2:04.

Below is the pdf I made using MuseScore. 

I wanted to include the MuseScore file itself, in case you would want to edit it yourself, but the system won't let me, as it issues an error like File extension error.  File: The Sailor's Hornpipe in A-1.mscz .  

The music is not the same as the video in the way it is organized, but I think I got the details of the particular notes the same, and you can adapt the organization of it to your own needs:

Here is a link to the MuseScore source file I made, from which I generated the pdf that I posted above.  You can download it and modify it to your purpose using the MuseScore program.  You can immediately click on the link and hear what it sounds like.

http://musescore.com/user/5001.....ores/67952

Here is where you can download MuseScore for free:

musescore.org

"Create, play and print sheet music for free with MuseScore"