Sweet Biddy Of Ballyvourney

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on June 25th 2001 by granama.

This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.

Also known as Ceol Na Ceartan, Ceol Na GCeartan, The Forge Music, Sweet Biddy Of Baile Mhuirne.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Forty Years Of Irish Piping by Seamus Ennis
• Jackie Daly And Seamus Creagh by Jackie Daly And Seamus Creagh
• The Kilmore Fancy by Catherine McEvoy And John McEvoy
• The Master Pipers Volume 2 by Tommy Kearney
• The Thing Itself by Maeve Donnelly And Peadar O'Loughlin

X: 1
T: Sweet Biddy Of Ballyvourney
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj

G2BG Bdde | fdge fdcA | G2BG Bdde | fdcA AGG2 :||
~g2dg ~g2ag | fdde fgaf | ~g2dg ~g2ag | fdcA AGG2 | ~g2db ~g2ag | fgag f
def | defg abag | fdcA AGG2 ||
"Variation" G2BG Bdde | fdge fdcA | G2BG Bdde | fdcA AGGE | DGBG Bdde |
fdge fdcA | G2BG Bdde | fdcA AGG2 ||
~g2dg ~g2ag | fdde fgaf | ~g2dg gbag | fdcA AGG2 |gd (3Bcd gd (3Bcd | fg
ag fdef | defg abag | fdcA AGG2 ||

Ceol na gCeartan (The Forge Music)

This neat tune appears on two great flute and fiddle duet albums released last year: Maeve Donnelly and Peadar O'Loughlin "The Thing Itself," and Catherine McEvoy and John McEvoy "The Kilmore Fancy." As Pat Mitchell points out in the sleeve notes of "The Thing Itself," it's a variant of "The Pretty Girls of Mayo": http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1954 M. Donnelly and P. O'Loughlin plays Willie Clancy's setting, which goes like this:

K: Gmaj
G2BG Bdde|fdge fdcA|G2BG Bdde|1 fdcA FGAF:|2 fdcA AGG2||
g2dg gfde|fdge fdcA|g2dg gfde|fdcA AGG2|
dg~g2 gfde|~f3g fdcA|dg~g2 bgag|fdcA FGAF||

McEvoy version is in between Clancy version and the one already posted.

# Posted on October 29th 2005 by slainte