Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.
This tune has been added to 853 tunebooks.
Also known as An Ghaoth A Bhogann An Eorna, Da Wind Dat Shakes Da Barley, Little Pack Of Tailors, The Little Pack Of Tailors, The Pack Of Tailors, The Wind That Blows The Barly Down, Wind That Shakes The Barley, The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Wind That Shakes The Barley, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|A2AB AFED|B2BA BcdB|A2AB AFED|gfed BcdB|
A2AB AFED|B2BA BcdB|A2AB AFED|gfed Bcde|
|f2fd g2ge|f2fd Bcde|f2fd g2fg|afed Bcde|
f2fd g2ge|f2fd Bcde|f2ae g2be|afed BcdB|
This is a rousing, upbeat tune that's great fun to play at a fairly fast speed.
Try turning the opening A note into a triplet like ABA. The corresponding B in the next bar could be turned into a BAB triplet.
Drones and double stops on the fiddle can be used to good effect in this tune. In the first part, try playing an open D string where possible and in the second part, an open A string.
# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy
Notation
Piece seems to end on a B note, which does not fit the Key Signature. Are there parts missing?
Doc
# Posted on October 14th 2002 by Doc Lawlor
Notation
The last note of the sheetmusic may be a "B", but that's not where the tune finishes.
The last note leads back to the first (or into another tune).
Obviously, if you want to, you can just play a D at the end, but then it would be as a coda, not as the last note of the 16th bar.
# Posted on October 14th 2002 by Jeremy
B/C box player needs advice with "Wind that shakes the barley".
I love the tune "Wind that shakes the barley" but it is somewhat of a stretch for me to play on my B/C box. The problem is with the "B" notes in the A part. If I play them on the inner row with button 7 as a pull, the tune sounds smoother, but my bellows end up stretched out from too many pull notes in a row. I then have to use the air valve to get the bellows back in shape while playing one of the few push notes. If I play the "Bs" on the outer row as a push on 7, the tune sounds a little more jerky but I have better control of the bellows. And I am not playing the tune very fast at all now. I am pretty sure playing faster would be too difficult with the latter method.
Anyone have any advice? Thanks, Jim.
# Posted on May 25th 2004 by meowguy
The Wind That Shakes the Cannabis
T:Wind That Shakes the Cannabis, The
M:4/4
L:1/8
C:Gian Marco Pietrasanta
R:reel
K:EMin
|B2Gc BGFE|c2cB cdec|B2Gc BGFE|agfe cdec|
~B3c BGFG|EccB cdec|B2Gc BGFE|agfe cdef||
~g3e ~a3f|~g3e cdef|~g3e a2ga|bgfe cdef|
~g3e ~a3f|~g3e cdef|efga bgc'g|bgfe cdec|]
% ABC2Win Version 2.1 19/12/2004
# Posted on December 19th 2004 by gian marco
Here's a slightly different version:
K: Dmaj
A2AB AFED|B2BA BcdB|A2AB ABde|1 fedc BcdB:|2 fedc Bcde||
f2fd g2ge|f2fd Bcde|f2fd g2fg|afed Bcde|
f2fd g2ge|f2fd Bcde|defg a2ab|afed BcdB||
# Posted on August 18th 2005 by slainte
There's a recording of this on "Champions of Ireland: Flute" CD under the name "Dogs Among the Bushes" but I believe that's a different tune.
# Posted on April 3rd 2006 by PaddyCmusic
The Little Pack of Sailors is also sung by
Elisabeth Cronin and appears as 'The Pack of Tailors' on:
http://www.irishsong.com/recordings_when.html
where it is sung by Len Graham:
Oro they rattle me, oro they chased me, oro they rattled me the little pack of tailors...
I went down to Cork, I found a little tailor, I put him in me pocket and threw him in the Liffey...
It's a great rhyme that goes on listing everypossible town and river in Ireland!
# Posted on September 30th 2006 by birlibirdie
The Caoimhin o'Raghallaigh touch.
Caoimhin plays this with that unassumingly old-time brilliance of his in an incredibly simple but powerfully haunting way. he drops to the low strings and drones his whole way through, cutting notes out for what amounts to the silhouette of the tune: D. BAG D. BAG E. E DEGG D. BAG D. G. BA GE GG...
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by Dan the Man
aha! i return with a moderate dexterity of ABC notation.
X: 1
T: Wind That Shakes The Barley, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|D2 (3B,A,G, D2 (3B,A,G,|E2 ED EG G2|B,D DB, D2|GG B2 AG|EGGE|
|D2 (3B,A,G, D2 (3B,A,G,|E2 ED EG G2|B,D DB, D2|GG B2 AG|EGG2|
|B4 c4 B3|/2GE GG2|B4 c4 dBA|GE GG2|B4 c4 B3|
|GE GG2|DEGA B2|de dB AG EG|GE D2|
--DtM
# Posted on January 6th 2007 by Dan the Man
Another The Wind That Shakes The Barley?
There is another song called the Wind That Shakes the Barley recorded on Irish Rebel Songs by the Battering Ram, and on the Unicorn by the Irish Rovers. It sounds nothing like this song and is a slow ballad. I was wondering if anybody knew how to play it?
# Posted on February 24th 2007 by Boody
Another TWTSTB - Song Setting
The song of the same name with lyric by Robert Dwyer Joyce is sung to various tunes, different from this reel. The Battering Ram setting is roughly (omitting fermatas):
T:TWTSTB
M:4/4
L:1/4
K:Em
F|GFEF|GFEF|GGGB|AFDF|
GFGA|BcBA|GEFD|EE2F|
GFGA|BcBA|GFGA|BEEF|
GFGA|BcBA|GEFD|EE2|]
Yes, I know how to play it.
# Posted on February 25th 2007 by MTGuru
Variations on The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Some variations I came up with as a homework assignment.
X: 1
T: Wind That Shakes The Barley, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|A2AB AFED|B2BA BcdB|A2AB AFED|gfed BcdB|
A2AB AFED|B2BA BcdB|A2AB AFED|gfed Bcde|
|f2fd g2ge|f2fd Bcde|fafd gbge|afed Bcde|
f3d g3e|f2fd Bcde|f4 g4|a2f2 e2d2
|A2 A A2 FED|B2 B B2 cdB|A2AB AFED|gfe2 BcdB|
(A4 A) FED|(B4 B) cdB|A2AB AFED|B2 c2 d2 e2|
|f2fd g2ge|f4 Bcde|f2fd g2fg|afe2 Bcde|
f2fd g2ge|f2fd Bcde|f2ae g2be|afed BcdB
|(A4 A) FE2|(B4B) cd2|A2 A A2 FE2|g2 e2 BcdB|
A2AB AFED|B2BA BcdB|A2A2 AFED|g2 f2 d2 e2|
|f2fd g2ge|f2fd Bcde|fef2 g4|afed Bcde|
f2fd g2ge|f2fd Bcde|fafd gbge|afed Bcdc|d8|
# Posted on March 5th 2007 by Tall, Dark, and Mysterious
What Key?
Are you sure this is Dmaj? I hear an A as the tonic here, which would make it Amix.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by Criostoir
A mixolydian - pah! nonsense!
No it is in D major - get your guitar out and try to play A mix along with it - ouch!
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
Tune linked to Solas; different tune (song) on album
Listening to Solas' "Showers" CD and checked the link to this tune. On their album, it's totally different--played as an arranged song in D minor in a "crooked" tempo akin to 3/8, 3/8, 3/4 (or rather 6/8, 3/4) 3 (or 2) bar phrases, e.g. tah-tah-tah tah-tah-tah ONE-TWO-THREE. Lyrics are about the 1798 United Irish movement. Cool song...maybe I'm missing something and their song is a very liberal setting of this tune.
# Posted on October 17th 2007 by InSearchofCraic
The song and tune have nothing in common apart from their title.
# Posted on October 17th 2007 by Kenny
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Does anyone have the music for the Chieftains version of this?
They play a fantastic set with this first and then the reel with the Beryle. When you have had too much to drink to play along with it on the whistle or the box its great fun with the Bodrahn
# Posted on February 20th 2008 by True Celt
The Wind That shakes the Barley
It's uncanny that I have been playing a cassette, containing the Cheiftains version of this tune, over and over again during tha last two weeks so here are the abc's;
T: The Wind that Shakes the Barley
S: The Chieftains 8
Z: transcribed by Hetty 28/02/08
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: D
A2FA A2FA | B2GB BGdB | A2FA A2de | fded B2dB |
A2FA ADFA | BEGE B2dB | A2FA ABde | fded BAde ||
f2ef g2eg | fedf e2de | fdfd a3b | afed Bcde |
f2ef g2eg | fedf e2dA | defg a2ab | afed BcdB ||
alternatives; bar 6 'B' music ~ | fedf edBA | ~
on the last time before changing to "The Reel with the Beryle"
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/189
play ~ | afed Bcd2 ||
# Posted on February 28th 2008 by hetty