Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on November 28th 2010 by Cuanshore.
This tune has been added to 6 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Harvest Ricks
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:(3BGE | DGGE FGAF | DGGE GDCF | DGGE FGAc | d2 cA B2 GF |
DGGE FGAF | G2 GE FDCF | DGGE FGAc | d2 cA Gd :|
|:(3Ace | f2 de fcAg | f2 de f2 ag | f2 de fcAe | fgfd c2 de |
f2 de fcAe | f2 de f2 ag | abgb fgef |1 d2 cA Gd :|2 d2 cA d2|]
I think this comes from the pen of Patric O'Leary (Piper) from Kerry in the early part of the nineteenth century. Most of the information is in Irish, (my Irish isn't very good I'm afraid, as I've forgotten most of it) but, what I can make out is, that P. O'Donovan collected it, and notated in upon this manuscript, which is dated 1833.
# Posted on November 28th 2010 by Cuanshore
I wonder if ricks means to stack... we used to cut, split with an axe and stgack or "rick" firewood when I was a kid. I wonder if that is what "ricks" stands for in this tune name.
# Posted on November 29th 2010 by horatio spens the blademan
I think it refers to stacking wheat or corn at harvest time, long before they had this modern machinery that does it nowadays.
It used to be a lovely sight sight seeing these ricks of wheat or corn in the fields, compared to the big round bails they have now.
# Posted on November 29th 2010 by Cuanshore
I have made a big mistake, it actually means hay or straw ricks,
The Irish that the title comes from is: "cruach fhéir an déanaim an fómhar ". Which literally translates "I havested the hay ricks" sorry about my mistake!
# Posted on November 29th 2010 by Cuanshore
Interesting. So it seems "ricks" is a word that is used in Ireland. Ive only heard it used in a few states here in the USA.
# Posted on November 30th 2010 by horatio spens the blademan
The term "rick" is or was used pretty much throughout the whole of Britain, though "stack" is more common nowadays. Typically a "rick" was a regularly shaped pile of hand-gathered bunches ("bundles") of cut straw, hay, reeds or whatever. Hence a hay-rick means much the same thing as a haystack etc.
# Posted on November 30th 2010 by andy9876