The Cuckoo's Nest

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on July 2nd 2009 by talltorpedo.

This tune has been added to 21 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• 40th Anniversary Album by Armagh Pipers Club
• Bráithre An Óil by Monks Of The Screw
• Brian Kelly by Brian Kelly
• Cape To Clare by Various Artists
• Celtic Mouth Music by Various Artists
• Celtic Nyckelharpa by Gavin Pennycook
• Classic Recordings Of The Irish Fiddle Legend by Paddy Reynolds
• Classics Of Irish Piping Volume 2 by William Andrews And Liam Walsh
• Gogarty's Music II: A Decade On by Various Artists
• Green Fields by Robin Bullock
• Halcyon Days by Sean McCarthy
• Irish Accordion Masters by Joe Derrane And Jerry O'Brien
• Killultagh by Killultagh
• Mahervelous by Frank Maher And The Mahers Bahers
• Music For Peace by Gary Hastings And Frankie Gavin
• Over The Edge by Moher
• Purgatory Chasm by Skip Healy
• Rags, Reels And Airs by Dave Swarbrick
• Sean Potts by Sean Potts And Paddy Moloney
• Standing Room Only by Eliot Grasso
• The Best Of Irish Piping by Seamus Ennis
• The Cat That Ate The Candle by John Carty And Brian McGrath
• The Ceilidh Album by Dave Swarbrick
• The Funny Reel by Joe Burke, Andy McGann And Felix Dolan
• The Gentlemen Pipers by Various Artists
• The Gravel Walks: The Fiddle Music Of Mickey Doherty by Mickey Doherty
• The Green House by Grey Larsen And Paddy League
• The Man Of The House by Tom Moran
• The Minstrel From Clare by Willie Clancy
• The New Strung Harp by Maire Ni Chathasaigh
• The Road Out Of Town by The Itinerant Band
• The Star Spangled Molly by De Danann
• Top Of Coom by Conal Ó'Gráda
• Traditional Fiddle Music From The Glens Of Antrim by Dominic McNabb
• Tunes For Practice by Seamus Creagh
• Uilleann Piping, Another Generation by A New Dawn
• Undertones by Adrian Barker And Ben Stephenson
• Voyager: Ireland's Tin Whistle by Various Artists
• Walking Stones by Ken Kolodner, Laura Risk, Robin Bullock

X: 1
T: Cuckoo's Nest, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
ABc |: dedc dfed | cAB^G A^GAB | =c d =c B =c e d =c | BGAF GEFG |
AFDF ABde | fdAF GEFG | ABAG FDEC |1DA,B,C DABc :|2DA,B,C DEFG ||
|: AFDF AFDF | ABde fdAF | GE=CE GE=CE | GFGA B=cBG |
AFDF ABde | fdAF GEFG | ABAG FDEC |1DA,B,C DEFG :|2DA,B,C DABc ||

Nickel Creek's Cuckoo’s Nest

Nickel Creek did an excellent rendition of this version of “The Cuckoo’s Nest”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYqoi7dCtlA&feature=PlayList&p=8118F9594CE0B15E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=17

# Posted on July 5th 2009 by talltorpedo

Hornpipe version

The classic, hornpipe version of The Cuckoo's Nest is in the database as a separate entry http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2395 .

# Posted on July 8th 2009 by sixholes