It Goes As Follies

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on April 14th 2004 by jdave.

This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Crabs In The Skillet by Old Bay Ceili Band
The Blue Dress by Shannon Heaton
The Eagle's Whistle by Michael Tubridy

X: 1
T: It Goes As Follies
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
gedB AGED|GFGA Bdef|gedB AGED|1~G3B A2ef:|2EAAF G2GA||!
BddB dega|bagb aged|BddB dega|1bagb ~a3 z:|2bagf g2ef||!

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

It Goes As Follies

Wonderful little tune with a rather interesting name. Perhaps someone said to a musician "How does that reel go? Play it for us!" and he replied "All right, it goes as follows...."

That's my hypothesis anyway.

-Jonathan

# Posted on April 14th 2004 by jdave

NEARLY RIGHT -- COMPOSER CREDIT

This tune was composed by former Chieftains flute & concertina player Michael Tubridy. The tune got its title from a characteristic expression of Michael's former band-mate the piper Paddy Moloney. And indeed I have myself heard Paddy use this expression a few times at Chieftains concerts.

# Posted on September 28th 2010 by LongNote

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