Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on May 12th 2004 by gian marco.
This tune has been added to 53 tunebooks.
Also known as If There Were No Men, If There Weren't Any Men, If There Weren't Any Men In The World, Pearl O'Shaughnessy's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Hills Of Tara, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
Bc|d2 G2 GB AB|c2 E2 E2 AG|FGAB cBcd|e2 d2 B3c|
d2 G2 GB AB|c2 E2 E2 AG|FGAB cADF|A2 G2 G2 :|
|:Bd|g4 f3d|efed A2 AG|FGAB cBcd|e2 d2 B3d|
g4 f3d|efed A2 AG|FGAB cADF|A2 G2 G2 :|
The Hills Of Tara (barndance)
Source: Hammy Hamilton, Séamus Creagh, Con Ó Drisceoil - "It's No Secret"
Transcription: gmp
# Posted on May 12th 2004 by gian marco
Thanks Gian, another great little tune - I don't know why but most barn dances always seem to have good melody lines.
# Posted on May 12th 2004 by Bannerman
The Hills Of Tara (barndance)
there is a little mistake in the 2nd and 6th bar of the B part. (sorry)
This is the correct version:
Bc|d2 G2 GB AB|c2 E2 E2 AG|FGAB cBcd|e2 d2 B3c|
d2 G2 GB AB|c2 E2 E2 AG|FGAB cADF|A2 G2 G2 :|
|:Bd|g4 f3d|efed A2 AG|FGAB cBcd|e2 d2 B3d|
g4 f3d|efed A2 AG|FGAB cADF|A2 G2 G2 :|
# Posted on May 12th 2004 by gian marco
The Hills Of Tara (barndance)
mmmmm....I prefer the "wrong" version...
# Posted on May 12th 2004 by gian marco
Reminds me of......
one by Ed Reavy, "The Dances at Kinvarra"
# Posted on May 12th 2004 by snorre
The Hills of Tara
What, no sound file??? No midi??? I'm terrible at notes, need to hear it, and by following
the tune along w/ the notation, it will help this "newbie" to learn how to read.
# Posted on May 15th 2004 by katwoman
The Hills of Tara
This tune is also on Eoghan O'Sullivan, Gerry Harrington, and Paul De Grae's trio album "The Smoky Chimney." They call it Pearl O'Shaughnessy's. I think she's a Scottish-born fiddler and Paul O'Shaughnessy's mother.
# Posted on January 4th 2005 by slainte
Another Pearl Shaughnessy's Barndance
I have just posted another tune called Pearl Shaughnessy's Barndance - it is slightly similar ti this one but my version has four parts and is in D, and I think it is a completely different tune. I heard it on a Paul McGratten and Paul Shaughnessy album, (album title I just can't remember), but do remember reading that Paul Shaughnessy got the tune from his mother Pearl. I first learnt it as Con Cassidy's Barndance many moons ago, and got it from my late friend Simon Knight, accordion player, from Wells, Somerset.
# Posted on March 17th 2005 by *Davy Rogers
The notes of O'Sullivan, Harrington, and De Grae's trio recording "The Smoky Chimney" say the four-part version of the tune is often played as two separate barndances in Donegal.
# Posted on March 17th 2005 by slainte
"If There Weren't Any Women In The World" ~ barndances often swung as a set
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on January 26th 2003 by glauber.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1376
# Posted on July 29th 2006 by ceolachan
" The Hills of Tara" ~ barndance
X: 2
T: Hills Of Tara, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
|: B>c \|
d2 G2 G>A (3BAG | c2 E2 E2 A>G | F>GA>B c>Bc>d | (3efe d2 B>AB>c |
d2 G2- G>AB>G | c2 E2 E2 A>G | F>GA>B c>AF>G | (3ABA G2 G2 :|
|: (3Bcd |\
g4 f4 | e>fe>d A2- A>G | F>GA>B c>Bc>d | (3efe d2 B>A (Bcd |
g2 G2 f>F (3FFF | e>fe>d A2- A>G | F>GA>B c>A (3DEF | A2 G2 G2 :|
# Posted on November 19th 2009 by ceolachan
Oops! ~ lack of sleep and dyslexic tranmutation of the | & \
Thanks for the head up muspic, assuming this is the 'slip in standards' you referred to...
It seems I screwed up, nothing new there. I've been teaching this one lately in a set of three. As I'm repeating the one just above, I'll add some other possibilities ~
Here's that previous mistake ~ |: B>c \| ~ which should have read |: B>c |\
X: 22
T: Hills Of Tara, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
|: (3ABc |\
d2 G2- G>A (3BAG | c2 E2 E2 A>G | F2 (3GAB c2 (3Bcd | e>G^c>e d>G (3ABc |
d2 G2 D>B>A>B | c2 E2 E2- E>G | F>GA>B c>DF>G | (3ABA G>F G2 :|
|: B>d |\
g>G (3GGG f>F (3FFF | e>fe>d A2 (3BAG | F2 (3GAB c2 (3Bcd | e>G^c>e d>GB>d |
g2 G2 f2 F2 | e2 (3fed A2- A>G | F>GA>B c2 (3DEF | A2 D2 G2 :|
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by ceolachan
~ transmutation ~ Ooo-ooO...
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by ceolachan
Wow! I must be tired, check out that bar, the 5th of the A-part. That shouldn't read ~ d2 G2 D>B>A>B | ~ but should instead have been ~ d2 G2 D>BA>B | ~ I promise, I'll have to start considering taking old man naps in the middle of the day...
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by ceolachan
Enough messing about with notes, I'm going for a long soak, having just returned from a night of music and being pickled in the smoke of the publican, a dear man who in our current cold wet weather doesn't have an outside place to exercise his addiction... Cough, cough...
# Posted on November 20th 2009 by ceolachan
I play the tune something like this...
Bc|:d2G2 GBAB|c2E2 A2AG|FGAB cBcd|e2d2 ~B3c|
|d2G2 GBAB|c2E2 A2AG|FGAB cADF|A2G2 G2:|
(3Bcd|:g2ge ~f3d|efec A2AG|FGAB cBcd|e2d2 B2(3Bcd|
|g2ge ~f3d|efec A2AG|FGAB cADF|A2G2 G2:|
Personally, I like that c in the B part more...
I like doing a variation on the B part kind of like this:
gBdg fBdf|efec A2AG|...
# Posted on February 1st 2010 by JosephC
"The Hills of Tara" ~ taking it more simply
The following is closer to how I usually pass this on to others, with more 'agreement' between the bars, as with the closing of both parts, bars 7 & 8:
X: 4
T: Hills Of Tara, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
|: B>c |\
d2 G2 G>A (3BAG | c2 E2 E2 A>G | F>GA>B c>Bc>d | (3efe d2 B^>AB>c |
d2 G2 G>A (3BAG | c2 E2 E2- E>G | F>GA>B c>AF>G | (3ABA G2 G2 :|
|: (3Bcd |\
g2 g2 f2 f2 | e>fe>d A2 A>G | F>GA>B c>Bc>d | (3efe d2 B^>AB>c |
g>G (3GGG f>F (3FFF | e2 (3fed A2- A>G | F>GA>B c>AF>G | (3ABA G2 G2 :|
I've also noticed another mistake in the variant rich version given before this ~ bars 4 & 5 of the A-part ~
~ | e>G^c>e d>G (3AB=c | (missing the change to natural / =)
d2 G2 D>BA>B | ~ (removing that extra > that was in the middle)
# Posted on July 4th 2010 by ceolachan