Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 7th 2001 by Mad Baloney.
This tune has been added to 115 tunebooks.
Also known as Mullingar Races.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Mullingar Races, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
A,2|D2(FD) EA,A,E|DEFA Bcde|(3(fga) ec dcdA|(3(Bcd) AF EGFE|
DEFD EA,A,E|DEFG Bcde|(3(fga) ec dBAG|FGEF D2||
(3(ABc)|d2(fd) adfb|afdf edBc|d2(fd) adfd|Beed egfe|
d2(fd) adfb|afdf edBc|dgfe dBAG|FGEF D2|]
Mullingar Races & Monsignor's Blessing
A couple weeks ago I posted the "Monsignor's Blessing" & Will noted the resemblence to the "Mullingar Races". At the time I was not familier with the "Mullingar Races" so I looked it up in the "Old" O'Neill's. Outside of the first measure I think these tunes share very little. This setting is note for note in from the book. Maybe you are are know a different setting Will?
Brad
# Posted on August 7th 2001 by Mad Baloney
Mullingar Races
Yes, the setting I know does differ some from the old O'Neill's, though it's clearly the same tune. And I don't hear much if any difference in the overall chordal structure between Mullingar and Monsignor's Blessing--I'd never string them back to back at a session because they are so similar. By "variation on a theme" in my comment on Monsignor's, I meant that they obviously come from the same tune family, though they are distinct enough to recognize as separate tunes.
Will
# Posted on August 7th 2001 by Will Harmon
Mullingar Races in hornpipe
I was looking for this tune and, besides this version, i found a hornpipe version in G (both are in O'Neills). Sounds like a variation on the same tune. I didn't post it as a tune here because the version i found is notated in 2/4, and the site forces hornpipes to 4/4, and it didn't look right to me like that. Plus it might confuse people. Here it is:
X: 1
T: The Mullingar Races
M: 2/4
L: 1/16
R: Hornpipe
B: O'Neill's 1588
K: G
D2|GABG ABcA|defd dcBA|BcBG ABAG|FGAB cAFD|\
GABG ABcA|defd dcBA|B2d2 cAGF|D(G{A}GF) G2:|
(3(def)|g2eg f2ed|gage f2(ed)|defg abag|f2dd (de)dc|\
B2BG AFD2|BdBG ABcA|defd cAGF|D(G{A}GF) G2:|
# Posted on September 7th 2002 by glauber
Hornpipe
The hornpipe version looks like "Annie's Favourite" or "Rover Through the Bog" to me.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3175
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4458
# Posted on December 31st 2007 by bdh
Mullingar races
its a nice tune but it did my head in tring 2 get the fingers right (I play the piano accordian)
# Posted on May 6th 2008 by accordian ace
The Dubliners' version
The Dubliners' version.
X: 1
T: The Mullingar Races
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
Z: olafure@gmail.com. 15. jun 2008
K: Dmaj
FE | DEFD EA, ~A,2 | DEFA Bcde | faec d2cA | BdAF EGFE |
DEFD EA, ~A,2 | DEFA Bcde | faec dBAG |1 FGEF D2 FE :|2 FGEF D2 Ac |
|: d2fd adfd |afdf edBA | d2fd adfd | Beef edBA |
d2fd adfb | afdf edBA | d~gfe dBAG | FGEF D2 :|
# Posted on June 15th 2008 by middlefaster
The Mullingar Races Reel
Hi all
Does anyone know a good reel (or even slipjig) that would fit in well with The Mullingar Races?
# Posted on February 13th 2009 by brener
Re: The Mullingar Races Reel
You could try The Traveller http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/143
# Posted on February 13th 2009 by Dr. Dow
Re: The Mullingar Races Reel
Mullingar Races and then Traveller after it, that is.
# Posted on February 13th 2009 by Dr. Dow
Re: The Mullingar Races Reel
You can always go to Pigeon on the Gate.
# Posted on February 13th 2009 by fidkid
Re: The Mullingar Races Reel
The Limerick Lasses goes nice after it.
# Posted on February 13th 2009 by Luidín
Re: The Mullingar Races Reel
How about The Crooked Road, which is what Tony Linnane and Noel Hill peerlessly do on "The Iron Behind The Velvet"? The tunes follow on from Christy's song Trip to Jerusalem. Makes the hairs on the back of me head stand up, does that track!
# Posted on February 13th 2009 by Steve Shaw
Re: The Mullingar Races Reel
the donkey reel its a 50 to 1 outsider or langstromes poney might be a safer bet
# Posted on February 13th 2009 by myparasgon
Tunes to coincide with The Mullingar Races
try the Merry Blacksmith after the mullingar races...it gives it a bit of oomph!!!gluk
# Posted on August 17th 2009 by Reelyconkored
A tip to fiddlers:
this tune is often played at session by fiddlers who want to part company, so to say, with the non fiddling rabble!
# Posted on April 19th 2010 by birlibirdie
A tip for the non fiddling rabble:
Play these low A's as high a's and join in the fun any 'a' way!
# Posted on April 19th 2010 by birlibirdie