Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on August 20th 2001 by Mad Baloney.
This tune has been added to 195 tunebooks.
Also known as The Gray Goose, The Grey Goose, The Old Goose, Old Grey Goose, The Old Grey Goose.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Old Gray Goose, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Emin
(E/F/)|GBG FAF|GEE E2F|DFA dAG|FDD DEF|
MGFG AGA|BAB gfg|edB ({c}B)AF GEE E2:|
|:F|G2G dBG|GA (B/c/) dBG|A2A ecA|A(Bc/d/) ecA|
GAG dBG|egf ({a}g)fg|edB MBAF|GEE E2:|
|:d|efe edB|def g2e|fdd add|fag fed|
gfg fef|def ({a}g)fg|edB MBAF|GEE E2:|
|:c|BGG AFF|GEE E2c|BGG dAG|FDD D2c|
BGG AGF|GEE ({a}g)fg|edB MBAF|GEE E2:|
|:f|gbg faf|gee e2f|gbg fag|fdd def|
gbg faf|egf ({a}g)fg|edB MBAF|GEE E2:|
|:f|gdc BcA|GEE E2f|gdB dAG|FDD DEF|
G3 ({B}A)GA|Bcb ({a}g)fg|edB MBAF|EGG G2:|
Nice Jig
This is a very pretty tune that I do not get to play very often. I would like to share with everyone. This setting is very close to traditional Sligo setting as well as to the "Old" O'Neill's (1907).
# Posted on August 20th 2001 by Mad Baloney
The old grey goose
I heard this tune played on the piano accordian by my friend Paul Wilkins - (parson's hat)..I didn't get the chance to learn it at the time, and never got round to getting a tape of him playing it!
# Posted on December 29th 2001 by Lizzy
Slight variation
I usually play section 3 different, I like this version a LOT more, try it yourself: (I have not tested this ABC, I may have a note length wrong or something sorry)
|: B | efe fdB | def g2 a | fdd add | fag fed | gfg efe | dfe ggg | edB BAF | GDD D2 :|
In addition, this song is in e minor and should end on an E not on a G, though the G does sound interesting.
Often, when there is a situation where there is a triplet that starts on one not eand falls to another and stays there for the third, I play the second two as their own mini-triplet. I forget the term. On low-whistle. Sounds nice.
Also very pretty when played quite slow.
# Posted on August 17th 2004 by sifudave54
"The Old Grey Goose" ~ duplication / only 3 parts
Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on June 6th 2005 by MattB.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4566
# Posted on December 27th 2005 by ceolachan
Sorry, they had the key wrong, not A Dorian but the same old e minor...along with everything else...
# Posted on December 27th 2005 by ceolachan
Great fiddle tune. I think it was composed by Michael Coleman.
# Posted on November 14th 2006 by flauta dolce
Apparently not..........
Doesn’t look like it. This jig was published in O'Neill's in 1907. Coleman was born in 1891, and didn’t go to America until 1914. [ From the “Colman Heritage Centre ” website]. According to “The Fiddler’s Companion”, the version Coleman recorded came from “O’Neill’s”
# Posted on November 14th 2006 by Kenny
Mícheál Ó'Súilleabháin
By no means a complete transcription, but still very interesting, including some (hopefully not illegal !) syncopation:
X: 1
T: Old Grey Goose, The
D: Mícheál Ó'Súilleabháin: The Dolphin's Way
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Emin
EF|GBG FAF|GEE EFE|vD/vE/FA dAG|{FG}FEF DEF|
~G3 ~A3|~B3 gfg|{ef}edB {Bc}BAF |GEE E2:|
|:D|~G3 dGe|dGe dBG|GAA (^c/B/)Ae|Af A^g Aa|
~G3 dBA|GdB Ggf|{ef}edB {Bc}BAF |GEE E2:|
|:A|Bee {ef}edB|def gfe|{fg}fdd add|f/g/ag fed|
~e3 edB|def Ggf|{ef}edB {Bc}BAF |GEE E2:|
|:c|BGB AFA|GBE E2c|BGB ~A2G|FA EA Dc|
BGB AGF|GFE gfg|{ef}edB {Bc}BAF |GEE E2:|
|:f|gfg aga|bd'e' e2f|gbd' {ab}a2g|{fg}fef def|
Ggg eff|def Bgf|{ef}edB {Bc}BAF |GEE E2:|
|:f|geB {Bc}BAB|GB FB Ef|gdB ~A2G|FEF D2f|
|geB {Bc}BAB|GFE gfg|{ef}edB {Bc}BAF |GEE E2:|
# Posted on June 19th 2009 by walterbracht
The Auld Gé Ghlas
here's an even more harmonious version: http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/g/greylaggoose/index.aspx
Apparently, the greylag goose (Anser anser) is the old and only relative of our modern white (or grey) goosey gander (Anser anser ssp. domesticus).
More ansers and éanswers to the questions you never asked at:
http://www.informatika.bf.uni-lj.si/magus-celtic&basque.html
# Posted on April 21st 2010 by birlibirdie
I note in passing that the auld [MIDI music file] program seemed to have been made for MÓS's interpretation! (or was it the other way around?) ;- )
# Posted on April 21st 2010 by birlibirdie