Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on November 18th 2003 by Kenny.
This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.
Also known as Maid Of Hollywell, The Maid Of Hollywell, Maids Of Hollywell, Maids Of Holywell.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Maid Of Holywell, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
A2 AB A2 dB | ADFA BG E2 | A2 FA BdAd | BdAG FDDB |
ADFA BdcB | A2 FA BEEF | G3 A Bdeg | fdec dBAB |
d2 fd edBd | egfe dBAB | d2 fd egfe | dBAG FD D2 |
d2 fd edBd | egfe dBAB | defg a2 ag | faeg fd d2 |
Maid Of Holyhead
From the playing of Harry Bradley at Miltown Malbay 2 years ago. I got the name of the tune from the CD by Christy Barry, Cyril O'Donohughe and Conor McCarthy.
# Posted on November 18th 2003 by Kenny
I love this title, but I can't stop laughing long enough to try the tune....
# Posted on November 19th 2003 by Will Harmon
good tune.
# Posted on November 19th 2003 by gian marco
Holyhead !
Sorry about this, Will. I've just noticed that the name of this reel is "The Maid Of HolyWELL" ( or Hollywell). Must have been one of them thar Freudian slips! At least you got a laugh out of it.
# Posted on December 21st 2003 by Kenny
Another setting
I'm currently setting out Josephine Keegan's "lifetime collection", "A Drop In The Ocean" in abc ... which I can read much faster than dots ... and she has a setting which differs somewhat from the one posted here. Those that are interested in such matters might like to make comparisons.
X:1
T:Maid Of Holywell, The
M:4/4
R:Reel
K:D
|:dB|(3ABA FA B2dB|A2FA BEEB|A2FA BdAd|BdAG FDDB|
ADFA BdcB|A2FA BEEF|G3A Bdeg|1fdec d2:|2fdec d3||
e|:d2fd edBd|egfe dBAB|d2fd egfe|dBAG FDDA|
d2fd edBd|egfe dBAB|defg a3g|1f2eg fdd2:|2f2eg fd||
# Posted on August 21st 2005 by Aidan Crossey
This is the last tune in the Tomin O'Dea set on Buttons & Bows "Grace Notes".
# Posted on June 27th 2008 by Dr. Dow
According to Denis Mac Mahon this is a Clare reel
Denis Mac Mahon and Connie Connell plays a great version of this tune in a setavailable on YouTube (B-flat setting)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IWXzVNzOuzM
# Posted on January 10th 2009 by FiddleTramp
Denis Mac Mahon & Connie O'Connell's setting
X:1
T:The Maids of Hollywell
S:Connie O'Connell & Denis Mac Mahon (fiddles, Cork/Kerry)
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
K:
A3 A ~B3 d | A2 FA BE ~E2 | ADFA (B/c/d) Ad | (B/c/d) AG FDDE |
D2 FA d2 cB | A2 GF GEEF | ~G3 A Bdeg | fedc d3 A ||
d3 f edBd | egfe dBAB | d3 d egfe | dBAG FD D2 |
d2 ~d2 edBd | egfe dBAB | defg ~a3 g | f2 eg fedB ||
# Posted on March 10th 2011 by jaychoons