22/09/2019 Carolan’s Concerto (reel) on The Session

Carolan’s Concerto

D A A D Bm D

3 A7 Bm A7

Bm G D G Em A7

F m A7 F m A7 A D

D Em D A G A7 D

A3 G D A G

D A Em D Em

D A7 D

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Farrel O’Gara’s

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Fleur De Mandragore

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John Doherty’s

3 3 3 3

3 3 3

1 2

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Poll Ha’Penny

3 3

3 3 3

3 3

3 3

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1 2

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The Rocky Road To Dublin

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1 2

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The Acrobat

3 3

3 3

3 3

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The Glass Of Beer

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3
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A Fig For A Kiss

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Behind The Haystack

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1 2

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Rakish Paddy

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Drowsy Maggie

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The Road To Errogie

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The Musical Priest

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Calliope House

1 2

1 2

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Carolan’s Favourite

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John Ryan’s

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Speed The Plough

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The Acrobat

3 3
1 2

3 3 3

3
3
3
1 2

3 3

https://thesession.org/tunes/3459/3459?print=true 1/1
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The Battering Ram

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The Bucks Of Oranmore

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The Clare

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12/26/2020 The Connaughtman’s Rambles (jig) on The Session

The Connaughtman’s Rambles

D G

D G 1 Em 2 Em

Bm A

Bm G 1 A 2 A

https://thesession.org/tunes/19/31497?print=true 1/1
25/09/2019 The Drops Of Brandy (slip jig) on The Session

The Drops Of Brandy

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The Humours Of Ballyloughlin

1 2

1 2

1 2

1 2

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The Humours Of Flinn

3

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The Limerick Lasses

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The Maid Behind The Bar

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The Noisy Curlew

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The Providence

1 2

3 3

3 1 2

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The Sailor’s Bonnet

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3 1 2

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The Salamanca

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Up Against The Buachaláns

1 2

1 2

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Tam Lin

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The Castle

1 2

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A Feg For A Kiss

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25/02/2020 Malcolm Finlay (reel) on The Session

Malcolm Finlay

1 2

https://thesession.org/tunes/6237/6237?print=true 1/1
29/02/2020 Cooley’s (reel) on The Session

Cooley’s

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Drowsy Maggie

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O’Keeffe’s

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The Ashplant

3 3 3

3 3

3 3 3

3 3

https://thesession.org/tunes/726/26532?print=true 1/1
28/09/2019 The Drunken Landlady (reel) on The Session

The Drunken Landlady

https://thesession.org/tunes/363/363?print=true 1/1
12/31/2020 The Kid On The Mountain (slip jig) on The Session

The Kid On The Mountain

https://thesession.org/tunes/52/52?print=true 1/1
25/09/2019 The Killarney Boys Of Pleasure (reel) on The Session

The Killarney Boys Of Pleasure

https://thesession.org/tunes/733/733?print=true 1/1
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The Merry Sisters

1 2

Last time

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Toss The Feathers

1 2

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The Morning Star

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Return From Fingal

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The Banshee

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Ag Taisteal Na Blárnan

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The High Hills Of Tara

1 2

1 2

1 2

3
1 2 slide

3 3

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01/02/2020 Fanny Power (waltz) on The Session

Fanny Power

G Em C D C D Bm D

G Em C D C D G

G Em C D

G C D G D G

https://thesession.org/tunes/957/957?print=true 1/1
27/01/2020 Gold Ring (1) (The) - Traditional Tune Archive

The Gold Ring [1]

Jig Ennis

3 3

Source: O’Neill, Dance Music of Ireland. 1850 Melodies, 1903, no. 708
Transcription: François-Emmanuel de Wasseige

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27/01/2020 Gold Ring (1) (The) - Traditional Tune Archive

GOLD RING [1], THE ("Fáinne n-Oir" or "Fáinne Óir {Ort}"). AKA and see "Fermanagh Gold Ring," "Lasses of Limerick," "Faire!
Faire! ar Aghaidh! ar Aghaidh!," "Tá Fáinne Air." Irish, Jig. D Mixolydian ('A' and 'B' parts) & G Major ('C', 'D', and 'E' parts)
{Brody, O'Neill}. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF (Boys/Lough): AABBCCDDEE (Brody): AABBCCDDEEFFGG
(Mallinson, O'Neill): AABCC'DD'EEFG (Mitchell): AABB'CCDD'EEFFGG (Taylor). A member of a very large tune family which, as
Paul De Grae says "sometimes seems to include half the jigs in the (Irish) repertoire." "The Gold Ring" is known as an uilleann
piper's tune (O'Neill says it was a favorite of early 20th century piper Pat Touhey's). Caoimhin Mac Aoidh relates Seamus Ennis's
story of a piper who had the courage to spend a night hiding near a fairy rath to listen to the wonderful music of the little folk. As
usual they returned to the rath at sunrise to sleep, the nights' festivity over, and the piper crept out from hiding. On close
investigation of the site he found a tiny gold ring on the ground, dropped by a fairy reveller. The very next evening he returned to
the rath and hid in the same place to listen again to the music of the wee folk but this time he also overheard the lamenting of a
fairy piper over the loss of the ring. The fairy cried that he would grant any wish to get it back, upon which he man stepped from
hiding and offered to return the ring, explaining how he found it lost. True to his word the fairy granted the human one wish, and
asked the piper to name it. 'The jig I heard the other night,' said the man, who added he could not quite remember it (due to the
fairies blocking the memory of their tunes), and the fairy piper granted the wish on the spot-the tune that has ever since been
called in memory of the incident "The Gold Ring." The Boys of the Lough relate a very similar story concerning a farmer who
surprised a fairy gathering on returning home late one night. It seems the fairies were dancing to the music of a fairy piper, but
ran off after being startled by the intruder. The farmer was about to continue his journey home when found a gold fairy ring, left
behind after the flight of the fey folk. He managed to return it to the fairies and in exchange they gave him the tune that the fairy
piper had been playing when he first surprised them.

O'Neill [1] maintains that pipers converted this jig from a nine-part melody called "Pharroh or War March (The)" (for which see
"Faire! Faire! ar Aghaidh! ar Aghaidh!"), which was obtained from Dr. Petrie in 1835 and printed in Bunting's Ancient Music of
Ireland, published in 1840 (the word pharaoh seems to Paul de Grae to have been derived from the Irish word faire--pronounced
far-eh-meaning watch or wake). Bunting thought the tune to be "very ancient." Paul de Grae, in his Notes to the O'Neill
Collections (2012) explains in detail--

O'Neill's setting is in seven parts, each of eight bars and each repeated. Bunting's setting, "The Pharaoh or War
March" (EB 3:143) is in nine parts, each of four bars and each repeated; the last two parts are rather contrived-
sounding minor-key riffs. Although clearly related, there are many differences between the settings; perhaps the
most notable is that in O'Neill, instead of a repeated four-bar phrase for each part, a different ending has been
used on the repeat to create eight-bar parts, sufficiently interesting to warrant repetition of the whole eighty bars of
each part.

O'Farrell has a variant four-part setting in a minor key, "Lasses of Limerick" (OFPC 2:139); the last part is more or
less the same as the last two minor-key parts in Bunting. O'Neill prints O'Farrell's tune, with acknowledgement, in
Waifs and Strays (WSGM 182).

Goodman has a two-part setting, "Five Pound Jig (The)". Dia LUain's Dia Máirt" (TMP 79). Petrie has an untitled
setting (SP 982, "Ancient Munster March and Jig. as set by Mr. Joyce"), in three parts , with O'Neill's first part as
the second. The third part of Petrie's "Buachaillan Bruithe" or "Buachallan buidhe" (SP 96, 1258) occurs in present-
day settings of "The Gold Ring," though not in O'Neill's."

"Will You Come Down to Limerick?" (MI 1121-2, DMI 415) is a slip jig variant."

The Fleischmann index links this tune to "Scots Hall," published in London by Thompson in his Compleat Collection of 200
Favourite Country Dances, c. 1755, although some think the connection weak. Other relatives might include (depending on
how you interpret the connections) "Old Woman's Money (1) (An)," "Buachalin Bruithe," "Búachallán Buídhe," "Butcher's March
(1)," "Five Pound Jig (The) (Dia Luain 's Dia Máirt: Monday and Tuesday)," "Huggerth the Puss," "Wearied Lad (The)," and
untitled march collected by George Petrie (Stanford/Petrie No. 982), and, just perhaps, "Buachaill Breóite (An)."

1. Francis O'Neill, Irish Minstrels and Musicians, 1913

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Good Morning To Your Nightcap

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Jean’s

3
1 2

1 2

3 3

3 3 3 3 3 3

1 2
3 3 3

3 3

3 3

https://thesession.org/tunes/255/255?print=true 1/2
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https://thesession.org/tunes/255/255?print=true 2/2
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Maggie Brown’s Favourite

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Mulqueeney’s

3 3 3

3
3 3 3 3

1 2

3
3 3 3 3

1 2

3 3
3 3

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Na Ceannabhain Bhana

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Out On The Ocean

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The Coalminer’s

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1 2

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The Coolin

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The Crooked Road To Dublin

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The Galway

3 3

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3 3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3

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3 3 3 3 3 3 3

3
3

https://thesession.org/tunes/3977/3977?print=true 2/2
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The Humours Of Whiskey

G Bm G Bm A G Bm G A

D A D G D G A

https://thesession.org/tunes/46/46?print=true 1/1
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The Kesh

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The Limestone Rock

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The Long Drop

3 3

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The Malbay Shuffle

1 2

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The Moving Cloud

https://thesession.org/tunes/1091/1091?print=true 1/1
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The Moving Cloud

1 2

https://thesession.org/tunes/1091/14332?print=true 1/2
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https://thesession.org/tunes/1091/14332?print=true 2/2
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The Swaggering Jig

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Tommy Peoples’

1 2

1 2

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Caoilte Mountains

3
3

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Paddy Fahey’s

1 2

1 2

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