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Behind The Haystack

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on November 6th 2001 by stutty.

This tune has been added to 359 tunebooks.

Also known as Box The Monkey, Fill The Bag, Killoughery Jig No. 2, Munster Buttermilk, The Munster Buttermilk, Port An Bhrathar, Port An Bhráthar, Port Na MBráithre, Squeeze Your Thighs, Take Her Or Leave Her.

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X: 1
T: Behind The Haystack
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
d2e fdB|d2e fdB|AFE ~E3|AFE EFA|
d2e fdB|d2e fdB|AFD ~D3|AFD DFA:|
|:~B3 BAF|ABc dcB|AFE ~E3|AFE EFA|
~B3 BAF|ABc dcB|AFD ~D3|1 AFD DFA:|2 AFD D2f||
|:~g3 faf|ede fdB|AFE ~E3|AFE E2f|
~g3 faf|ede fdB|AFD ~D3|1 AFD D2f:|2 AFD DFA||

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Behind The Haystack sheetmusic
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Behind The Haystack

This is a great 3-part jig starting in Dmajor. It's fun to try and find suitable accompaniment for it. There are some nice things you can try with the tune.

# Posted on November 6th 2001 by stutty

Comhaltas

Heard this tune at a comhaltas tour concert and discovered it was ringing through my head the next day and so I started to play it on the fiddle. But I've just discovered (using the search by abc option on this website) that it has a third part which, for some reason, my memory banks had rejected. Great tune, a light refreshing tune which I use to follow Gallacher's jig.

# Posted on May 12th 2003 by Jamie

just learned this tune. very fune tune with a lot of ornamentaion possibilities. sounds kind of scotich to me.

# Posted on May 6th 2005 by Pete D

Behind the Haystack

Not to be confused with the two-part jig in G known as Munster Buttermilk.

# Posted on January 18th 2006 by Guernsey Pete

Behind the Haystack

On the other hand.......Boys of the Lough, issued by Philo inthe US in 1975, includes the following sleeve note; "The second jig in the set we know as Behind the Haystack, a name given to us by Carol Gardiner, a young fiddle player from London. Seamus Ennis on the other hand calls it The Munster Buttermilk. He got the tune from his father who was also a fine piper."
Well, I hate to dis Seamus Ennis, but I was sitting next to the young Carol at the very concert when they said, "We don't know the name of this next jig", and as soon as they started playing it Carol started jigging about in her seat, and said "I know that, it's Behind the Haystack".
Well, I'm gonna back my friend over Seamus Ennis on this occasion.

# Posted on January 19th 2006 by Guernsey Pete

Instead of d2e fdB|d2e fdB|, I play the A: d2e fdB|d2g fdB|. Gives it a little kick and lift on the second spin.

--DtM

# Posted on March 8th 2007 by Dan the Man

"Munster Buttermilk" ~ a different tune

Key signature: G & D Major (see comments)
Submitted on October 24th 2002 by lazyhound.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1077

# Posted on June 27th 2007 by ceolachan

Is in the Gunn Book (Fermanagh 1865) as Ladies Squeeze your Thighs, 6 parts

# Posted on November 12th 2009 by The Archivist

This is recorded as the Munster Buttermilk on this classic album:

http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/218

The link connects to the wrong Buttermilk on the recording page.

# Posted on May 5th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler

Behind the Haystack

First tune here by Martin McCormack, Collette Begin and Seán McElwain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rcDjNSiIpg

# Posted on November 15th 2010 by bogman

Munster Buttermilk/Behind the Haystack

Comhaltas version here (it's the 2nd tune in the set about 2' 10" )
http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_271_4_paula_mcmahon_josephine_nugent_mickey_smith/

# Posted on September 5th 2011 by onscuba

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