Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on October 11th 2002 by SPeak.
This tune has been added to 129 tunebooks.
Also known as Macleod's, Trip To Herve's, Trip To Herves, The Trip To Herves, Wedding.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Trip To Herve's, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
FAAF ABde|faaf dafd|B2dB AFDE|FEED E2DE|
FAAF ABde|f2af dafd|B(3BBBd AFEG|1 F(3FFFE DBAG:|2 F(3FFFE DEFG||
AB(3BBB d2BA|EFFE FGFE|DEFG A2DE|FGA2 FGAF|
AB(3BBB d2BA|EFFE FGFE|DEFG ABAG|FGEG FDEF|
GABc d2BA|EFFE FGFE|DEFG A2DE|FGA2 FGA2|
B2FA2EF2|DEED EFGA|B2FA2EF2|DEED EFGA||
This is a fun tune by Michael McGoldrick.
# Posted on October 11th 2002 by SPeak
Lovely tune. I'm in the midst of learning it. I was told the name of it was 'Morning Rory' (sp?).
# Posted on October 11th 2002 by Brendan
This tune is called Trip to Herves. The album title is "Morning Rory".
# Posted on October 12th 2002 by SPeak
The more I hear this tune the more I loathe it. The 1st part's okay but the 2nd part is really annoying, particularly that syncopated bit at the end. When someone starts it up in a session I get a panic attack when and feel claustrophobic, and get the urge to suddenly leap up and rush out of the room, lashing out and roaring at the other musicians as I leave.
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by Dow
This tune came up in almost every session I was at in Ennis.
It has a Dow repellant installed in it. This could explain why we've never seen Dow in Ennis.
hahaha
# Posted on December 13th 2004 by Phantom Button
Resist it Jack! Once you weaken your defences against this "Ennis" tune, you open yourself up to hundreds of clone tunes, all with annoying syncopated bits, and all played by young trad idols who reach proficiency in their chosen instrument at 3 years old. Don't go there!
# Posted on December 14th 2004 by Dow
Annoyances
I can live with the 3-3-2 bars at the end. Its the gratutious B triplets that annoy me. I must go to one of Dow's session sin sydney and play this. I'd put up with the B's to see the lashing and roaring. Ever considered the Foxhunter's jig in 2-2-2-3 Dow? That might have an even more impressive effect.
# Posted on July 15th 2005 by _________
The more I hear this tune the more I enjoy it.
# Posted on April 11th 2006 by Cammy
Trip To Herves
This is the same tune on the 'Upside Down' album by Sharon Shannon, Mike McGoldrick, Jim Murray, and Dezi Donnelly. I think Mike starts with Lafferty's then goes into this reel.
# Posted on January 18th 2007 by JACKB
I second Dow's comment on this tune: "The more I hear this tune the more I loathe it. The 1st part's okay but the 2nd part is really annoying...." I'll never ever bother to learn this. It won't stand the test of time, anyway.
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by slainte
Yes, Slainte. I think I'll avoid Ennis, then, and head for Tokyo for tunes instead
When this gets played at our session, sometimes it gets a bloody stupid coda tagged on the end of it. This involves repeating that B2FA2EF2 bit a few times and then ending melodramatically on a low D like this: DEED EFGA|D4-D4-D4-D4. Problem is, some people don't anticipate that this coda is coming, and drop out of the tune, so the tune sort of peters out with only a couple of people rounding it off. When I hear it played like this, it rots me to the core.
As a protest against the playing of this tune, a friend of mine from Ireland rewrote the last few bars. Now that's how we play it when it comes up in a session, and we do it regardless of whatever anyone else is doing, much to everyone else's annoyance and my own amusement. My friend's last few bars goes something like |BF~F2 AF~F2|DEFD EFGA|BF~F2 AF~F2|(3Bcd AF EFGE||.
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by Dow
Fortunately I didn't hear this played when I joined a couple of sessions in Ennis weeks ago.
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by slainte
I strongly believe the composer wrote this tune just for fun and never expected a bunch of people to play it together in sessions. The first part is just fine, so the second part is all the more annoying.
By the way, it sometimes gets played in Tokyo. Sigh.... Farewell to Whalley Range is a good pentatonic tune though.
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by slainte
Yes. Farewell To Whalley Range is nice.
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by Dow