The Merry Sisters

reel

Key signature: Edorian

Submitted on June 29th 2001 by CreadurMawnOrganig.

This tune has been added to 119 tunebooks.

Also known as Margret O'Donnell's, Merry Sisters, The Merry Sisters Of Fate.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• An Ph by Dicky Deegan
• Far Off Fields by Taxi Mauve
• Fiddler's Fancy by Tommy Peoples
• Fifty-Odd Years by Jimmy Power
• Folktrax-077 The Jolly Tinker: Michael Gorman, Irish Fiddler by Michael Gorman
• Green Roses by Orthodox Celts
• Irish Traditional Music Of County Clare by Bernard O'Sullivan And Tommy McMahon
• Michelle O Brien, Aogan Lynch And Gavin Ralston by Michelle O Brien, Aogan Lynch And Gavin Ralston
• Once Again (1987-1993) by Altan
• Past Masters Of Irish Fiddle Music by Various Artists
• Reeds And Rosin by Todd Denman And Dale Russ
• Reprise by Paddy Glackin And Micheal O Domhnaill
• Roguery Road by Jason O'Rouke And Ruadhrai O'Kane
• Shadows On Stone by Matt Molloy
• The Best Of Irish Piping by Seamus Ennis
• The Celebrated Recordings by John Doherty
• The Chieftains 3 by The Chieftains
• The Coming Of Spring by Eitre
• The Given Note by Liam O'Flynn
• The Gravel Walks: The Fiddle Music Of Mickey Doherty by Mickey Doherty
• The Iron Man by Tommy Peoples And Daithi Sproule
• The Merry Sisters Of Fate by Lunasa
• The Purple Heather CD1 by Vincent Campbell
• Time For A Tune With Charlie Lennon by Charlie Lennon

X: 1
T: Merry Sisters, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
BE~E2 BdcA | B2Ed BAFA |1 BE~E2 BdcA | dD~D2 ~D2FA :|2 DEFA dfea | fdec d2cA ||
Beec dBcA | Beed BAFA | Beec dfed | BdAB dAFA |
~B3A dcdf | edef gfed |(3Bcd ec dfed | BdAB dAFD ||
Edcd BdAd | BE~E3 BAFA | B2dA BdAB | dD~D2 DEFA |
BdAd ~B2Ad | BE~E2 BAFE | DEFA dfea | fdec d2cA ||
"Last time" fdec d4 ||

The Merry Sisters

This setting is from Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples and owes much to his inventive style of playing.

# Posted on June 29th 2001 by CreadurMawnOrganig

The third part is more or less a variation on the first part, but it's a heck of a finger-twister.

# Posted on June 29th 2001 by CreadurMawnOrganig

AKA The Merry Sisters of Fate...

it's the same tune, just in Edor (or Em?). Altan and Lunasa also do it, among many many others...

# Posted on November 16th 2003 by JHowley

Go here for the Ador Lunasa version http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/623

# Posted on May 2nd 2007 by Dr. Dow

The version by Liam O'Flynn, played with (what he calls) O'Rourke's and Colonel Fraser on "The Given Note":

X:1
T:Merry Sisters
S:Liam O'Flynn
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
K:Em
dc|:BE{G}E{F}E Bd c/2{d}c/2A|{c}BE{G}E{F}E dAFA|
BE{G}E{F}E Bd c/2{d}c/2A|dD{G}D{F}D ADFA:|
K:Edor
BE{f}ec d2cA|Be{f}ed BAFA|Be{f}ec dcdA|
B3/2{c}B/2{A}Bc dAFA|Be{f}ec d2-dA|Be{f}ec defg|
af .g/2.f/2e fded|BABc dAFA|BdcA {c}BAFA|BE{G}E{F}E BEFA|
B3/2{c}B/2{A}BA B3/2{c}B/2{A}Bc|dD{G}D{F}D ADFA|BdcA {c}BAFA|
BE{G}E{F}E {c}BAFA|D2.E/2.F/2A d2eg|fdec dAFA|]

# Posted on December 31st 2011 by Weejie