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Lad O'Beirne

hornpipe

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on February 15th 2002 by Mad Baloney.

This tune has been added to 53 tunebooks.

Also known as Lad O'Beirne's, O'Beirne's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Lad O'Beirne
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
Bc | dBgd BdcB | Agfa ~g3e | dfec BdcA | FdAF (3.D.E.D (3.C.B,.A, |
G,B,DG BGDB, | CEAB c3A | (3.B.c.B GB cAFD | G2GF G2 :|
ga | bgdg bgdg | afdf afdf | (3.g.a.g (3.f.g.f (3.e.f.e dB | (3.c.B.A (3.B.A.G (3.F.E.D (3.C.B,.A, |
G,B,DG BGDB, | CEAB c3A | (3.B.c.B GB cAFD | G2GF G2 :|

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Lad O'Beirne sheetmusic
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Lad o'Beirne's

This tune is dedicated to Lad, Lad was a big player with the NYC city bunch. This is one of my favorite hornpipes but it is obviously a fiddle/box tune. Anybody up to posting a setting that doesn't dip below D?

# Posted on February 15th 2002 by Mad Baloney

Oh yeah, this is another Ed Reavy finger twister.

# Posted on February 16th 2002 by Mad Baloney

Above from below ~

T: Lad O'Beirne's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
B>c |
d>Bg>d B>dc>B | A>gf>a g>fg>e |
d>fe>c (3Bcd c>A | F>dA>F D2 (3cBA |
G>Bd>g B>gd>B | c>eA>B c3 A |
(3BcB G>B (3cBA (3FED | G2 B2 G2 :|
g>a |
b>gd>g b>gd>g | a>fd>f a>f (3def |
(3gag (3fgf (3efe d>B | (3cBA (3BAG (3FED (3cBA |
G>Bd>g B>gd>B | C>eA>B c3 A |
(3BcB G>B c>A (3FED | G2 B2 G2 :|

# Posted on June 6th 2005 by ceolachan

Lad o Beirne

this tune is played beattifully by an all Ireland champion fiddler on www.comhaltas.ie though this is a subscription site.

# Posted on October 6th 2005 by boxer

Ed Reavey's "Lad o'Beirne's hornpipe

wish this hornpipe was played more....it is a most lovely hornpipe. Also wish it had a different name d/t all the other Lad o'Beirne named tunes..

# Posted on May 8th 2008 by nenewolfe

Not Spellan the Fiddler

This is not "Spellan the Fiddler," which is an entirely different hornpipe. And Reavy's name was "Lad O'Beirne," not "Lad O'Beirne's."

Is there any way to correct the titles listed here?

# Posted on March 26th 2009 by blarneystar

Sean Ryan called it "The Flowing Tide"

This tune appears as "The Flowing Tide" on the sean Ryan LP "Traditional Music of Ireland". (The entire LP can be downloaded from http://ceolalainn.blogspot.com, which offers rare recordings of traditional Irish music.) Although the tune is called "The Flowing Tide" on the LP, it is obviously the Ed Reavy tune Lad O'Beirne. Here's my transcription from the Sean Ryan recording.

X: 1
T: Flowing Tide, The
S: Sean Ryan, on Traditional Music of Ireland, Vol. 1
Z: dbritton, 09/2010
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|B2 |:(3dcB gd BdcB |Agfa gfge |dBed BdcA |FGAG (3FED (3CB,A, |
G,B,DG BGDB, |~C2 EG ~c2 dc |~B2 GB ~A2 FA |1 G2 GF GABc :|2 Ggfa gfga||
|: (3bag dg bgdg |(3agf df afdf |gafg egdB |GBAG (3FED (3CB,A, |
G,B,DG BGDB, |~C2 EG ~c2 dc |~B2 GB ~A2 FA |1 G2 GF G2 ga :|2 G2 GF GABc|]

# Posted on May 30th 2011 by dbritton

http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/27642

# Posted on June 7th 2011 by Paul Groff

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