The Wind That Shakes The Barley

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.

This tune has been added to 1508 tunebooks.

Also known as An Ghaoth A Bhogann An Eorna, Da Wind Dat Shakes Da Barley, The Kerry Lasses, Little Pack Of Tailors, The Little Pack Of Tailors, The Pack Of Tailors, The Wind That Blows The Barly Down, The Wind That Shake The Barley, Wind That Shakes The Barley, The Wind That Shakes The Barley.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

...Born For Sport by Paul O'Shaughnessy And Harry Bradley
40th Anniversary Album by Armagh Pipers Club
A Breath Of Fresh Air by Kevin Crawford
Across The Black River by Kevin Burke And Cal Scott
Archives #1 by Jean Carignan And Gilles Losier
Are Here Again by Trad Lads
At Complete Ease by John Carty And Brian Rooney
Blowing Through The Reeds by Steve Shaw And Martin Cole
Both Ears And The Tail by Martin Carthy And Dave Swarbrick
Ceann Eile Le D'Thoil by Larre Reeves And John Coyne
Ceilidh by Bun' Ber E
Celtic Mouth Music by Various Artists
Celtic Road by Sláinte
Ceolmhar by Holly Geraghty And Jonathan Roche
Champions Of Ireland: Flute by Grainne Kelly And Ciaran Madsen
Cold Blow And The Rainy Night by Planxty
Concertina Music From West Clare by Elizabeth Crotty
Cuisle by Angela Deane
Culann's Hounds by Culann's Hounds
Dance Music Of Ireland: Jigs And Reels by Various Artists
Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 6 by Matt Cunningham
Dancing On Silver by Tim Collins
Dancing To Jigs And Reels by Various Artists
Dansoozies by The Poozies
Dawn In The Hills Of Ireland by Marty O'Keefe
Doorways And Windowsills by Antoin Mac Gabhann And Mick O'Connor
Drimalost And Beyond CD1 by Danny Meehan
Farewell To Ireland CD 3 (Of A Box Set Of 4) by Various Artists
Feadoga Stain by Mary Bergin
Fibb'nacci Sequence by Knot Fibb'n
Fiddle Volume II by Cape Breton Symphony
Fiddler's Fancy by Tommy Peoples
Fieldvole Music by Tony Hall
Foinn Seisiun 2 by Ceoltóirí Cultúrlainne
Footprints by No I.D.
For The Sake Of Old Decency by Cathal McConnel And Len Graham
Full Gael by Full Gael
Green Roses by Orthodox Celts
Halcyon Days by Sean McCarthy
Homecoming by Steampacket
In Praise Of Lissycasey by Various Artists
In The Footsteps Of Coleman by Various Artists
In The Smoke by Various Artists
Ireland's Best Session Tunes CD 1 by Waltons Recording
Irish Dance Music by Chris Droney
Jefferson And Liberty by The Itinerant Band
Katy Bar The Door by Randal Bays
Kids In A Candy Store by Rick May And Gil Yslas
King Of The Melodeon Men by Jimmy Shand
Kitty Lie Over by Mick O'Brien And Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh
La Route De L'orgie by Toutatis
Letting Go... by Katherine Irwin Thomas
Light And Shade by Skylark
Lose The Head by Garry Shannon
Martin Carthy by Martin Carthy
Mike MacDougall's Tape For Father Hector by Mike MacDougall
Music For Peace by Gary Hastings And Frankie Gavin
Music From Clare by Various Artists
Music From Co.Leitrim by Packie Duignan And Seamus Horan
Music In Exile: A Celebration Of Comhaltas In Leeds by Leeds CCE
My Love Is In America by Various Artists
Na Draiodoiri by Na Draiodoiri
New Irish Harmonica by Brendan Power
Out Of Ireland by Mick Moloney
Raise Your Head (A Retrospective) by The Poozies
Real Reels Of Ireland by Various Artists
Riches Of Clare by Various Artists
Rock And More Roses by Pat Kilbride
Seoda Ceoil 2 by Various Artists
Set Dances Of Ireland, Volume III by Various Artists
Shady Woods by Desi Wilkinson
Sheridan's Guesthouse by Dave Sheridan
Shetland Springs Fae Da Bonnie Isle by Gibbie Hutchison
Silly Wizard by Silly Wizard
Slow And Easy by John Weed And Stuart Mason
Southwind by Glenn Morgan
Sunday After Mass by Denis O Connor And Con Moynihan
Sunny Spells And Scattered Showers by Solas
The Best Of The Chieftains by The Chieftains
The Blue CD by Irish Session Tunes
The Bluebell Polka by Jimmy Shand
The Chieftains 8 by The Chieftains
The Coleman Country Ceili Band by The Coleman Country Ceili Band
The Dusty Miller by Conor, Gay And Seán McKeon
The Enduring Magic by Michael Coleman
The Fertile Rock by Chris Droney
The Floating Bow (Traditional Fiddle Music From Donegal) by John Doherty
The Gentlemen Pipers by Various Artists
The Green House by Grey Larsen And Paddy League
The Gypsy Princess. by Amergin
The High Level by Bobby Gardiner
The Irish Concertina by Noel Hill
The Irish Concertina Two by Noel Hill
The Irish Music Anthology (40 Classic Songs, Jigs And Reels) by Various Artists
The McDonaghs Of Ballinafad And Friends by Larry And Michael Joe McDonagh
The Men Of The Island by The O'Halloran Brothers
The Music Makers: Celebrating 35 Years Of Comhaltas In Leeds by Leeds CCE
The Purple Heather CD1 by Vincent Campbell
The Tempest by Robbie Hannan
The Wandering Minstrel by Seamus Ennis
The Wind That Shakes The Barley by Micho Russell
The Wind That Shakes The Barley by Jim McKillop And Mary Mulholland
Time To Time by Gerry O'Connor
Tony O'Connell And Andy Morrow by Tony O'Connell And Andy Morrow
Traditional Irish Music From County Clare by Eamon Cotter
Traditional Music Of Ireland by Joe Burke
Traditional Music Of Ireland And The Bucks Of Oranmore by Joe Burke And Charlie Lennon
Turning The Tune by Charlie Lennon
Twenty Irish Fiddle Tunes by Kevin Burke
Two For Two by Laurence Nugent
Waiting For Inspiration by Dan Carollo
When I Was Young by Len Graham, Garry Ó Briain, Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin
Wind And Reeds by Paudie O'Connor And John O'Brien

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

This is a rousing, upbeat tune that's great fun to play at a fairly fast speed.

Try turning the opening A note into a triplet like ABA. The corresponding B in the next bar could be turned into a BAB triplet.

Drones and double stops on the fiddle can be used to good effect in this tune. In the first part, try playing an open D string where possible and in the second part, an open A string.

# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy

Notation

Piece seems to end on a B note, which does not fit the Key Signature. Are there parts missing?

Doc

# Posted on October 14th 2002 by Doc Lawlor

Notation

The last note of the sheetmusic may be a "B", but that's not where the tune finishes.

The last note leads back to the first (or into another tune).

Obviously, if you want to, you can just play a D at the end, but then it would be as a coda, not as the last note of the 16th bar.

# Posted on October 14th 2002 by Jeremy

B/C box player needs advice with "Wind that shakes the barley".

I love the tune "Wind that shakes the barley" but it is somewhat of a stretch for me to play on my B/C box. The problem is with the "B" notes in the A part. If I play them on the inner row with button 7 as a pull, the tune sounds smoother, but my bellows end up stretched out from too many pull notes in a row. I then have to use the air valve to get the bellows back in shape while playing one of the few push notes. If I play the "Bs" on the outer row as a push on 7, the tune sounds a little more jerky but I have better control of the bellows. And I am not playing the tune very fast at all now. I am pretty sure playing faster would be too difficult with the latter method.

Anyone have any advice? Thanks, Jim.

# Posted on May 25th 2004 by meowguy

The Wind That Shakes the Cannabis

T:Wind That Shakes the Cannabis, The
M:4/4
L:1/8
C:Gian Marco Pietrasanta
R:reel
K:EMin
|B2Gc BGFE|c2cB cdec|B2Gc BGFE|agfe cdec|
~B3c BGFG|EccB cdec|B2Gc BGFE|agfe cdef||
~g3e ~a3f|~g3e cdef|~g3e a2ga|bgfe cdef|
~g3e ~a3f|~g3e cdef|efga bgc'g|bgfe cdec|]

% ABC2Win Version 2.1 19/12/2004

# Posted on December 19th 2004 by gian marco

Here's a slightly different version:

K: Dmaj
A2AB AFED|B2BA BcdB|A2AB ABde|1 fedc BcdB:|2 fedc Bcde||
f2fd g2ge|f2fd Bcde|f2fd g2fg|afed Bcde|
f2fd g2ge|f2fd Bcde|defg a2ab|afed BcdB||

# Posted on August 18th 2005 by slainte

There's a recording of this on "Champions of Ireland: Flute" CD under the name "Dogs Among the Bushes" but I believe that's a different tune.

# Posted on April 3rd 2006 by 52Paddy

The Little Pack of Sailors is also sung by

Elisabeth Cronin and appears as 'The Pack of Tailors' on:
http://www.irishsong.com/recordings_when.html
where it is sung by Len Graham:
Oro they rattle me, oro they chased me, oro they rattled me the little pack of tailors...
I went down to Cork, I found a little tailor, I put him in me pocket and threw him in the Liffey...
It's a great rhyme that goes on listing everypossible town and river in Ireland! :-)

# Posted on September 30th 2006 by birlibirdie

The Caoimhin o'Raghallaigh touch.

Caoimhin plays this with that unassumingly old-time brilliance of his in an incredibly simple but powerfully haunting way. he drops to the low strings and drones his whole way through, cutting notes out for what amounts to the silhouette of the tune: D. BAG D. BAG E. E DEGG D. BAG D. G. BA GE GG...

# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by Dan the Man

# Posted on January 6th 2007 by Dan the Man

Another The Wind That Shakes The Barley?

There is another song called the Wind That Shakes the Barley recorded on Irish Rebel Songs by the Battering Ram, and on the Unicorn by the Irish Rovers. It sounds nothing like this song and is a slow ballad. I was wondering if anybody knew how to play it?

# Posted on February 24th 2007 by Boody

Another TWTSTB - Song Setting

# Posted on February 25th 2007 by Rumgut

Variations on The Wind that Shakes the Barley

# Posted on March 5th 2007 by Tall, Dark, and Mysterious

What Key?

Are you sure this is Dmaj? I hear an A as the tonic here, which would make it Amix.

# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by chrisgagnemusician

A mixolydian - pah! nonsense!

No it is in D major - get your guitar out and try to play A mix along with it - ouch!

# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by No Cause For Alarm

Tune linked to Solas; different tune (song) on album

Listening to Solas' "Showers" CD and checked the link to this tune. On their album, it's totally different--played as an arranged song in D minor in a "crooked" tempo akin to 3/8, 3/8, 3/4 (or rather 6/8, 3/4) 3 (or 2) bar phrases, e.g. tah-tah-tah tah-tah-tah ONE-TWO-THREE. Lyrics are about the 1798 United Irish movement. Cool song...maybe I'm missing something and their song is a very liberal setting of this tune.

# Posted on October 17th 2007 by InSearchofCraic

The song and tune have nothing in common apart from their title.

# Posted on October 17th 2007 by Kenny

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Does anyone have the music for the Chieftains version of this?

They play a fantastic set with this first and then the reel with the Beryle. When you have had too much to drink to play along with it on the whistle or the box its great fun with the Bodrahn

# Posted on February 20th 2008 by Davy B

The Wind That shakes the Barley

It's uncanny that I have been playing a cassette, containing the Cheiftains version of this tune, over and over again during tha last two weeks so here are the abc's;
T: The Wind that Shakes the Barley
S: The Chieftains 8
Z: transcribed by Hetty 28/02/08
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: D
A2FA A2FA | B2GB BGdB | A2FA A2de | fded B2dB |
A2FA ADFA | BEGE B2dB | A2FA ABde | fded BAde ||
f2ef g2eg | fedf e2de | fdfd a3b | afed Bcde |
f2ef g2eg | fedf e2dA | defg a2ab | afed BcdB ||

alternatives; bar 6 'B' music ~ | fedf edBA | ~
on the last time before changing to "The Reel with the Beryle"
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/189
play ~ | afed Bcd2 ||

# Posted on February 28th 2008 by hetty

Wind that shakes the barley (song)

hmm is there any significance to the fact that this tune shares a title with the song written by r.d joyce?

# Posted on July 19th 2008 by chansherly212

No...

None at all, as far as I know, ( and said so , above ).The reel is probably Scottish, but who knows? It is certainly in the Neil Gow "Atholl Collection", so has been in Scotland since the 18th century, which I would think would make ithe reel older than the song. In any case, if you're referring to the song I think you are, there's no way on earth you're going to sing it to the reel.

# Posted on July 19th 2008 by Kenny

Sorry...

Mixed up 2 books. It's in the "Athole" collection - 1884.

# Posted on July 19th 2008 by Kenny

Have you also been losing sleep Kenny ~ Neil Gow "Athole Collection"??? :-/ Don't you mean James Stewart Robertson?