Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on December 5th 2006 by Phantom Button.
This tune has been added to 22 tunebooks.
Also known as Sean Ryan's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Seamus Connolly's
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
A|:dcd AFD|D/E/FD ECA,|DFA dfa|ged cBc|
dcd AFD|D/E/FD ECA,|DFA dfa|1gec d2 A:|2gec d2e||
fed f/g/af|ged cde|fdB gec|dcB AFA|
~d3 afd|~B3 gec|~d3 AFD|1A,CE D2 e:|2A,CE D2 A||
"variation on repeat of the A part"
dcd AFD|D/E/FD ECA,|DFA dfa|ged cBc|
dcd AFD|D/E/FD ECA,|DFA dfa|gec d2 A|
DFd AFD|D/E/FD ECA,|DFA dfa|ged ~c3|
dcd AFD|D/E/FD ECA,|DFA dfa|gec d2e||
"variation on repeat of the B part"
fed f/g/af|ged cde|fdB gec|dcB AFA|
~d3 afd|~B3 gec|~d3 AFD|A,CE D2 e|
fed f/g/af|ged cag|fdB gec|dcB AFA|
~d3 afd|~B3 gec|~d3 AFD|A,CE D2 ||
Seamus Connolly's
This tune was composed by Sean Ryan and appears in his book, The Hidden Ireland. I wouldn't normally post a tune available in a book like that, but in this case I'm actually referencing a video (produced for TG4) I came across Last night on the YouTube site of the tune played beautifully on fiddle and accordion by a couple of youngsters in Clare, Tara & Edward Breen. I think they're around 10 years old in the video. If you haven't seen it yourself... here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWCvKi99uNA
This provides a good opportunity to hear the tune played beautifully as well as making us all feel like we started playing ITM way too late in life.
# Posted on December 5th 2006 by Phantom Button
"The Hidden Ireland:
The First Selection of Irish Traditonal Composition of Séan Ryan"
Compiled by Brian Ryan
~ around 80 tunes and still in print last time I checked...
It's a sweet tune... Thanks for the reminder. I think I can say WE highly recommend this collection...
# Posted on December 5th 2006 by ceolachan
C, is that the Royal 'WE' or are you just referring to you and your S.O.
Sean Ryan's tunes really rock!
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by Donough
Rock and Roll Donough... 'WE' is definitely more than one, and I can see you've just counted yourself in ~ but my S.O. fancies the man's talents too and likes to swing to his beat...
# Posted on December 6th 2006 by ceolachan
Its a reel
its seamus connolly's reel on the fisherstreet album
# Posted on December 30th 2006 by anniejryan
Same name, different tune
The tune posted here is different from the Seamus Connolly's jig played on the Kevin Griffin album. A good transcript can be found on the JC site here:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tuneget?F=GIF&U=http://www.novosaires.com/Partituras%20y%20midis/abc/s.abc&X=15148&T=SEAMUSCONNOLLYS
# Posted on September 23rd 2007 by octogreg
The jig referred to here is played by Seamus Connolly on his "Here and There" LP from 1989. According to Seamus' sleeve notes "I named the second jig O'Brien From Newtown for my legendary accordionist friend, Paddy O'Brien. Paddy maintains he learned this tune from his grandmother, but I have a sneaky feeling humble Paddy composed it.".
# Posted on May 24th 2011 by Tony O'Rourke