The Braes Of Busby

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on June 28th 2005 by Kenny.

This tune has been added to 47 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Piper's Dream by Brian McNamara
• At First Light by Michael McGoldrick And John McSherry
• Like The Wind (Ar Nos Na Gaoithe) by John Wynne
• Maeve Donnelly by Maeve Donnelly
• Morga by Morga
• Seoda Ceoil 2 by Various Artists
• Speed 78 by Mike Rafferty
• Strayaway by Caoimhín Vallely
• Strayaway by Caoimhin Vallely
• The Best Of Irish Piping by Seamus Ennis
• The Daisy Field by Claire Keville

X: 1
T: Braes Of Busby, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
DG G2 (3 Bcd AF | DADF AGFD | G3 B dGBd | cAdc AG G2 |
DG G2 (3 Bcd AF | DEFG AGFD | G3 B dGBd | cAdc AG G2 |
g2 dB dgbg | f2 cB cfaf | g2 de dGBd | cAdc AGGf |
g2 dB dgbg | f2 cB cfaf | (3 gfe fd ecdB | cAFG AG G2 |
(3 Bcd GB GBdG | (3 ABc FA FAcA | (3 Bcd GB dGBd | cAdc AG G2 |
(3 Bcd GB GBdG | (3 ABc FA dFAd | BGBc dGBd | cAdc AG G2 |

Braes Of Busby

Requested by "LongNote". Not a tune I've heard often at all, but a favourite with pipers. The name would suggest Scottish origin, and it is obviously a close relation of both "Colonel Fraser" and "The West Wind". One of the few pipers I heard play it was the late Peter Forbes from Dundee, a true gentleman, who was equally skilled on both Highland and uilleann pipes.

# Posted on June 28th 2005 by Kenny

Re: Braes of Busby

Good man Kenny! I think I originally learned it off an old tape of Seamus Ennis' piping. It is indeed a tune you don't hear very often -- in fact I can remember the last time I heard/ played it -- with John McSherry at the fleadh in Sligo 199?? You can be sure he made a great job of it. Nobody seems to know it and, nowadays, I just keep wandering off into "Colonel Fraser". I believe that Ennis played them back-to-back on that tape -- maybe a good way of separating the two. Anyway, although the tune has proved to be neither popular nor profitable over the years, I always liked it and now I can get it going again. Go to the nearest virtual pub and have a virtual pint on me.

# Posted on June 28th 2005 by LongNote

Re Braes of Busby

A few years back John's brother Paul told me he got the tune from the Ennis tape(which John had),and slowed it right down for the lovely job he did of it on the guitar for the"At FIrst Light" album.

# Posted on June 29th 2005 by horaldo

Grand tune!

lovely tune, goes very well into colonel fraisers

# Posted on June 1st 2007 by Scrappy the Godo

"Crooked Colonel Fraser"

I had been going to post a reel which I have a recording of Tony "Sully" O'Sullivan playing, which he called "Crooked Colonel Fraser", but have realised that it's actually "The Braes Of Busby", - this reel - but transposed into the key of "D".

# Posted on August 24th 2010 by Kenny