Key signature: Edorian
Submitted on February 27th 2004 by Will Harmon.
This tune has been added to 132 tunebooks.
Also known as Anach Chuain, Anach Cuain, Annach Cuain, Eanach Cuain, Eanach Dhúin.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Sheep In The Boat, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Edor
|: BEF GFE | FEF def | edB BAF | AFE FED |
BEF G2 A | FEF def | edB {d}BAF | AFE E2 A :|
|: B2 e ede | fef d2 f | edB BAF | AFE FGA |
Bee ede | fef def | edB BAF | AFE E2 A |
Bee ede | ~f3 def | edB BAF | AFE FED |
B,EF GFE | ~F3 def | edB {d}BAF | AFE EFA |
The Sheep in the Boat
I learned this tune originally in D dorian (see below) off a fluter using a C flute. Then Tish was kind enough to transcribe a setting off of Kevin Crehan's An Bhadog in E dorian, which makes more sense for D whistles, flutes, and pipes. And it works just fine in either key on fiddle. The setting Ive posted here is a blend of the two sources, though probably more loyal to the C flute version.
If you know the Killavil Jig, this E dorian setting will sound familiar, but I like the passing notes in Sheep in the Boat.
Here's how it looks in D dorian, a nice low, somber and slow tune for fiddle:
X: 1
T: The Sheep in the Boat
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: D Dorian
|: ADE FDE | ~E3 cde | dcA AGE | GED EDC |
| ADE F2 G | EDE c2 e | dcA AGE | GED D3 :||
| A2 d dcd | ede c2 e | dcA AGE | GED EFG |
| Add dcd | ede cde | dcA AGE | GED DE/F/G |
| A2 d dcd | ede c2 e | dcA AGE | GED EDC |
| A,DE FED | ~E3 cde | dcA AGE | GED D3 ||
And the title's a classic
# Posted on February 27th 2004 by Will Harmon
Sheep in the boat
This seems to be a jig version of the song air Annach Cuain---a really nice adaptation
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by cruiser
Aaarrrggghhh. Thanks John. I knew I'd heard this before and knew it by another name. Heh, it's funny that there are so many tunes that you can inadvertently learn the same tune twice and not realize it till someone else points it out.
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by Will Harmon
And of course it's one I posted here myself some time ago: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/262
sheesh.
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by Will Harmon
Just read Alice Flynn's comments on the air... I now wonder whether "The Sheep in the Boat" is a reference to the parishioners who drowned, presumably helpless as sheep?
# Posted on March 4th 2004 by Tish
David, that's my recollection of it too, although I'm also free-associating this with some not-too-old movie where a dinghy is capsized in a storm, a man drowns, and there's a sheep involved (must be time to limit my intake of porter...everything's so foggy
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# Posted on March 5th 2004 by Will Harmon
Version by Tara Diamond on Wooden Flute Obsession
Hi, here is transcription of Tara Diamonds playing. Mind the {g}-Notes are supposed to be cuts and .x means play x short.
Hope, you like it:
X: 1
T: Sheep In The Boat, The
C: Tara Diamond "Wooden Flute Obsession 2" (disc 1, track 3)
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Edor
"1"BEF {A}GFE | ~F3 def | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE FED |
BEF G2 A | ~F3 def | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE E2 z |
BEF {A}G2E | ~F3 d3 | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE {F}FED |
BEF .G2 A | FEF .d2f | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE E2 z |
"5"{c}B2 e ede | ~f3 .d2 f | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE {G}FED |
BBe ede | .f2f def | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE E2 z |
BeB ~e3 | {g}fef Adf | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE {G}FED |
BEF .G2A | ~F3 .d2f | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE E2 z |
BEF GFE|~F3 def|{g}edB BAF|{B}AFE {G}FED|
"10"BEF G2 A | ~F3 Adf | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE E2 z |
BEF .G2 E | ~F3 dcd | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE {G}FED |
BEF G2 A | FEF .d2 f | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE E2 z|
B2e ede | .f2f def | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE {G}FED |
Bee .ede | fef .d2f | edB BAF | {B}AFE E2 z |
"15"B2e ede | ~f3 Adf | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE {G}FED |
BEF .G2A | ~F3 .d2f | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE E2 z |
BEF {A}G2E|~F3 d2f|{g}edB BAF|{B}AFE {G}FED|
BEF .G2 A | FEF def | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE E2 z |
BEF ~G3|~F3 Adf|{g}edB BAF | {B}AFE {G}FED |
"20"BEF .G2 A | ~F3 Adf | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE E2 z |
BB e ede | ~f3 .d2 f | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE {G}FED |
Bee .ede | .f2f def | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE E2 z |
~B3 eBe|~f3 .d2 f | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE {G}FED |
BEF .G2 A | ~F3 .d2 f | {g}edB BAF | {B}AFE E2 z ||
# Posted on February 9th 2007 by brotherstorm
Junior Crehan tune
This is in Junior Crehan's book of tunes under this name. It's played locally here but no one could remember tune name - then I heard it played in Miltown this year by Junior's son & daughter, I think. They called it 'Sheep in the Boat' which had me look it up in his book.
# Posted on August 14th 2007 by the wounded hussar
Skelton on Bb
Here's a link with John Skelton playing this on his Bb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtbKZ830yEE
# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by celtic marine
Omnia
Another lovely playing of this tune by Omnia : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COiETMzJ80U&feature=related
Published as "Richard Parker´s Fancy" 2007 on the album "Alive".
# Posted on September 7th 2009 by Firun
Composer
I think Junior Crehan composed this
# Posted on June 23rd 2011 by Markmoloney
Yes, this tune is often attributed to Junior Crehan. But as "cruiser" pointed above, it's based on the old song air Annach Cuain: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7236
# Posted on June 24th 2011 by slainte
Source
The E dorian fiddle version is in CRE5 (#49) where the notes firmly attribute it to JC who adapted/arranged it from the song air. No mystery, quite straightforward. - trad air, JC jig arrangement.
FWIW, IMO the D dor setting works better on D flute (if you have an F natural key) than the E dor - the octave folds needed for where the JC fiddle version goes down the G string out of flute range are more finger-comfortable/musically convincing - and there's the added advantage that it can flow straight out of the end of the song/slow air that way, carrying over the final A of the air (in the setting in Tomas O'Canainn's Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland - I think the setting linked above is rather faulty!) ) into the jig, if you want to pair them up.
# Posted on September 29th 2011 by Jemtheflute