Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 22 tunebooks.
Also known as Na Caoire Ar Na Sleibhtibh, Oh Hag You've Killed Me, Old Hag You Have Killed Me, Old Hag, You Have Killed Me, Old Hag, You've Killed Me, The Sheep On The Mountains.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Sheep On The Mountain, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
E|:FEF GFG|AdB cAG|AGA dcd|ABc d3|
FEF GFG|AdB cAF|GFG AFD|1GFE D2 E:|2GFE D2d||
fed efg|afd cAG|AGA dcd|ABc d2e|
fef gfg|afd cAF|GFG AFD|1GFE D2 d:|2GFE D2E||
The Sheep On The Mountain
From Breandan Breathnach's collection,"Ceol Rince na hEireann vol. 2".
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
David, we have to stop meeting like this!
I should apologize right up front because I really don't mean to come off like the tune police, nor do I want this to look like some personal vendetta. In my defense, can I plead that I'd do the same no matter who was posting this tune? It's just that David posts so many tunes and I check out every one of them....
But I do have several problems with this submission. First off, it's just the notes copied from Breathnach's book, with the ornaments stripped out. And there's no added context in the form of comments about the poster's playing of it. And not even the info from Breathnach's book, such as that this setting was based on the playing of uillean piper Jack Wade (1913-1967) from Co. Meath. (Btw, Wade wrote down tunes as he learned them, and Breathnach used Wade's manuscripts to include tunes in his own collection.)
Then I wonder if it shouldn't just be an addendum to the comments under the Old Hag, You Have Killed Me, for it looks to me to be the same tune with just a different ending bar tagged on: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1359
# Posted on January 28th 2004 by Will Harmon
Oh, and if I _were_ going to nit pick ( :-| ) I'd raise the question of whether we're in G major or D mix, but I won't. (Oh what a pedantic bashtahd I can be....)
# Posted on January 28th 2004 by Will Harmon
I agrree with the tune police
# Posted on January 28th 2004 by gian marco
The sheep On The Mountain
I posted a tune that wasn't on the site.What is the problem?
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Well, perhaps you posted a tune under a *title* that isn't on this site, but it sounds to me like a different setting of Old Hag You Have Killed Me. In other words, a setting of the tune *is* already on the site.
Of course, this is just me being a royal pain in the keister (honestly, I don't know what it is about your tunes David, that brings out the worst in me--I sincerely don't mean to pick on you! I've enjoyed many of the tunes you've posted...I guess I should try to say something constructive about those....). And it's up to Jeremy whether it stays as a distinct tune or gets lumped under the comments of the other tune (as sometimes happens when a setting is similar enough, regardless what name it's known by). Frankly, I can't figure out what criteria Jeremy uses to make those decisions anyway.
And sure, it's nobody's business if you want to post tunes out of a book here, but some of us (including Jeremy) weighed in on that practice a while ago and the general consensus was to try to discourage it. Exceptions made for filling a request for a specific tune, especially from a hard-to-find source, but the collective preference was for people to post tunes that they actually play rather than just repeating them from another written source. And for all I know, you play this as is, straight from the book--no problem.
# Posted on January 28th 2004 by Will Harmon
IMHO
I think is not a good idea to post tunes copied from a book.
# Posted on January 28th 2004 by gian marco
No 95
Na Caoire... is yet another slightly different version (as far as the transcription goes) found in O'Neill's 1001
# Posted on October 27th 2006 by birlibirdie