Sweet Biddy Of Ballyvourney

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on June 25th 2001 by CreadurMawnOrganig.

This tune has been added to 29 tunebooks.

Also known as Cailini Deasa Mhuigheo, Ceol Na Ceartan, Ceol Na GCeartan, Ceol Na GCeártan, The Forge Music, Molly My Darling, The Moortown Lasses, My Sweetheart Jane, Pretty Girls Of Mayo, Ríl Taimín, Sweet Biddy Of Baile Mhuirne, Tameen's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Aurora by Michael McGoldrick
• Back In Town by Paddy Killoran
• Cairde Cairdín by Diarmuid O'Brien
• Celtic Roots (Spirit Of Dance) by John Whelan
• Dual by Dual
• Fairwater (Fionnuisce) by Declan Masterson
• Forty Years Of Irish Piping by Seamus Ennis
• Honk Toot Suite by Éamonn Coyne And Kris Drever
• Jackie Daly And Seamus Creagh by Jackie Daly And Seamus Creagh
• Just Piping by Michael Cooney
• Out Of The Blue by Alan Kelly
• Out Of The Woods by Randal Bays
• Round The House: Music For The Sets Volume 1 by Various Artists
• The Art Of Traditional Fiddle Playing by Matt Cranitch
• The Dusty Miller by Conor, Gay And Seán McKeon
• The Kilmore Fancy by Catherine McEvoy And John McEvoy
• The King Of The Pipers by Leo Rowsome
• The Master Pipers Volume 2 by Tommy Kearney
• The Thing Itself by Maeve Donnelly And Peadar O'Loughlin
• The Wind Among The Reeds by Tommy Keane And Jaqueline McCarthy

X: 1
T: Sweet Biddy Of Ballyvourney
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj

G2BG Bdde | fdge fdcA | G2BG Bdde | fdcA AGG2 :||
~g2dg ~g2ag | fdde fgaf | ~g2dg ~g2ag | fdcA AGG2 | ~g2db ~g2ag | fgag f
def | defg abag | fdcA AGG2 ||
"Variation" G2BG Bdde | fdge fdcA | G2BG Bdde | fdcA AGGE | DGBG Bdde |
fdge fdcA | G2BG Bdde | fdcA AGG2 ||
~g2dg ~g2ag | fdde fgaf | ~g2dg gbag | fdcA AGG2 |gd (3Bcd gd (3Bcd | fg
ag fdef | defg abag | fdcA AGG2 ||

Ceol na gCeartan (The Forge Music)

This neat tune appears on two great flute and fiddle duet albums released last year: Maeve Donnelly and Peadar O'Loughlin "The Thing Itself," and Catherine McEvoy and John McEvoy "The Kilmore Fancy." As Pat Mitchell points out in the sleeve notes of "The Thing Itself," it's a variant of "The Pretty Girls of Mayo": http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1954 M. Donnelly and P. O'Loughlin plays Willie Clancy's setting, which goes like this:

K: Gmaj
G2BG Bdde|fdge fdcA|G2BG Bdde|1 fdcA FGAF:|2 fdcA AGG2||
g2dg gfde|fdge fdcA|g2dg gfde|fdcA AGG2|
dg~g2 gfde|~f3g fdcA|dg~g2 bgag|fdcA FGAF||

McEvoy version is in between Clancy version and the one already posted.

# Posted on October 29th 2005 by slainte

Same tune

This seems to bs the same tune as #1954 Pretty Girls of Mayo.

# Posted on January 22nd 2010 by rwwt

It's actually not exactly the same as the common version of Pretty Girls of Mayo, just a variant of it as I have informed above.

# Posted on January 22nd 2010 by slainte

Sweet Biddy of Ballyvourney

A blistering version of this tune is also to be found on the Seamus Creagh and Jackie Daly album

# Posted on March 30th 2010 by Flyer Nyhan