Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on November 3rd 2001 by Joerg Froese.
This tune has been added to 354 tunebooks.
Also known as 'Sí Do Mhamó Í, Sí Do Mhaimeo í, Caileach An Airgid, Cailleach An Airgead, Cailleach An Airgid, Cailleach An Airgid (Hag With The Money), Hag With The Money, Sí Do Mhamó í, S� Do Mh�aime�, Whore Among The Nettles Roaring.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Hag With The Money, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmix
|:Adc A3 | AGE G3 | Adc A3 | GEA GED |
Adc A3 | AGE G3 | AGE cde | dcA GED:||
K:DMaj
|:ABc dcd | fed efe | ABc dcd |eag edc |
ABc dcd | fed efg | age cde | dcA GED :||
As published in a book called "Irish Traditional Music, Session Tunes" by Anthony Sullivan.
There is another version of it in ONeills. The main difference - as I see it - is that in ONeills some of the c sharps in the 2nd part are natural (or the other way round: he sticks to Dmix and sharpens two or three of the cs).
Since Sullys book is the more recent (between 1980 and 90 I think) I am giving his version assuming that this might be closer to the way its actually played today.
Ive played both because at first I couldnt decide which version to post and decided I like this one better - though dont ask me why...
# Posted on November 3rd 2001 by Joerg Froese
Sean Nos Words w/ translation
S mo Mham , s mo Mham ,
S mo Mham , cailleach an airgid.
S mo Mham , as baile Iorrais Mhir
Is chuirfeadh s cist ar bhithre Chois Fhairrge.
[Literally: She's my granny, she's my granny,
She's my granny, the hag with the money.
She's my granny, from the town of Iorras Mr
And she'd put coaches on the roads of Cois Fhairrge.]
# Posted on April 12th 2002 by Mad Baloney
Sean Nos?
I always heard it with accompaniment. Interesting.
And there's also there's three verses, as well as the chorus yu posted.
# Posted on February 6th 2003 by Pádraig
Go to:
http://www.geocities.com/celticlyricscorner/altan/harveststorm.htm
for the lyrics + translation
# Posted on September 30th 2006 by birlibirdie
Kevin Conneff sings to this melody on The Chieftains' "Boil the Breakfast Early."
# Posted on September 30th 2006 by slainte
caoimhin o'raghallaigh claims that Sport is a three-part version of this tune. decide for yourself:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/870
--DtM
# Posted on January 28th 2007 by Dan the Man
After hearing this song on an Altan CD, my 5-year-old likes to sing
- sheet of one boy, sheet of one boy, sheet of one boy , goin' to Connecticut.
# Posted on July 23rd 2007 by Kheelch
Padraig O'Keefe
Just heard an interview (archived) on RTE, where Padraig O'Keefe was stated as writing a tune with the name "Hag with the Money".
# Posted on February 3rd 2009 by snorre
The lovely Aoife Murray sings a version of this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB2g7YeoFCY
# Posted on June 22nd 2009 by awildman2384
The Hag With The Money
Aidan Shannon on flute, Enda McGreevy on fiddle and Keith Gildea on button accordion, the second tune.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzYQyKzLiyE&feature=grec_browse
# Posted on October 24th 2010 by bogman