Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on May 12th 2009 by jaychoons.
This tune has been added to 37 tunebooks.
Also known as An Bahabhin Dubh, The Belles Of Liscarrol, The Belles Of Liscarroll, Donal O'Connor's, The Old Walls Of Liscarroll, Walls Of Licarroll, Walls Of Liscarrol, The Walls Of Liscarrol, Walls Of Liscarroll.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Walls Of Liscarroll, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmix
|: DE | F3 DGG | DEF E/F/ED | ~F3 GFG | AFD D2 E |
~F3 ~G3 |AGA e/f/ed | ecA GFE | FDD D :|
|: AB | c3 dcd | ecA AGE |c2 A dcA | AGF GAB |
~c3 dcd | e/f/ed eag | edc ABc | BA^G A :|
|:B^c | ~d3 AFA | GAG FED | ded AFA | GFE DFA |
~d3 AFA |DFA e/f/ed | ecA GFE | FDD D :|
|: B^c | dFF AFF | dFF AFA |FGE cEE | GFE GFE |
~d2 F AFA | DFA e/f/ed | ecA GFE |FDD D :|
Play it 'wit SOUL (Part 2)
One of my all-time favorite Frankie Gavin selections, this beautiful jig is on his "Frankie Goes To Town" CD (a MUST- OWN CD, if ever there was one!) In the liner notes, if memory serves, he got the tune from fiddler Donal O'Connor of County Kerry. Probably the most soulful & relaxed I've ever heard Frankie play. Goes quite well with another jig I posted recently "The Humors of Clare". Enjoy!
# Posted on May 12th 2009 by jaychoons
You've misspelt the tune's name. It's already listed here.
Try one of these - http://www.thesession.org/tunes/index/search?name=liscarrol&type_id=&mode_id=
# Posted on May 13th 2009 by MacCruiskeen
Belles of Liscarroll
In O'Neill's collection, this is the "Belles," not the "Walls" of Liscarroll, which is a different jig also in the book. The tunes are related, or at least some people think they are. See Andy Kuntz's "Fiddlers Companion" website for abc's and more info on both tunes.
# Posted on May 13th 2009 by blarneystar
A-ha! Found it!
Upon doing a bit more digging, I was able to find a printed version MUCH closer to the tune that Mr. Gavin plays on "Frankie Goes To Town" CD. It shows up in O'Neill's "Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody" under the title "The Old Walls of Liscarroll". The "Waifs" was first published some years after "1,001 Gems" & "1,850 Melodies" (O'Neill's written introduction is dated "August 28, 1922") & is comprised of "Forgotten Favorites, Worthy Variants and Tunes not Previously Printed". Sadly, it has been out of print for some time, but through the miracle of the internet can be downloaded (sorry, PDF only) for FREE here: http://www.pipers.ie/NPUPublic/Archive.aspx/ I think this version "fills in the gaps" between the common version of the "Walls" & "Belles" of Liscarroll... --Jay
# Posted on September 24th 2011 by jaychoons
Whoops! Let's try that link again....
Yeah, sorry about that, was trying to type in the the NPU link from memory (I don't have a "smart" phone yet; my "dumb" phone has limited web capability. That means I can't do anything fancy like, oh, copying and pasting a webpage adress from my email. D'oh!) I added the final forward slash by accident; it was never part of the link to begin with! Try this:
http://www.pipers.ie/NPUPublic/Archive.aspx
Enjoy!
-Jay
# Posted on September 24th 2011 by jaychoons