Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on April 9th 2003 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 56 tunebooks.
Also known as Along With The Girls, The Lark's March.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Lark's March
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Ador
eAA fAA | eAA fAA | g2g gfe | dBA GBd |
eAA fAA | eAA fAA | g2g gfe |1 dBA GBd:|2 dBA GAc ||
B2d dBd | edB ABc | B2d dBd | edB A2c |
B2d dBd | edB def | g2g gfe |1 dBA GAc:|2 dBA GBd ||
Lark's March, Not Calliope House
I first heard this jig played by the Corrs (in their first album?) and fell in love with the haunting melody. I searched for the tune immediately after picking up the whistle, but no tune database didn't have it. Then, I found Martin Hayes recorded it as Lark's March in his "Under the Moon," but again I failed to find it with that name.
Fortunately, I'm getting used to learning tunes by ear these days and found this one is pretty simple.
Does anybody know more about this lovely jig?
# Posted on April 9th 2003 by slainte
Lark or butcher ?
Hi, slainte - it's me again ! I've always known this tune - with the parts reversed - as "The Butcher's March". That was the name given to it on the "Music From The Coleman Country" LP, recorded in the early 70s, although Martin Hayes version is slightly different . "The Lark's March", again, as far as I know, is a 5-part jig in D, similar to the "Lark In The Morning". "Boys Of The Lough" recorded it, and I think so did Seamus Ennis. Anyone else know about these tunes?
# Posted on April 9th 2003 by Kenny
Along with the Girls
Yes, I already looked through the tunes you mention before posting this one and found "The Butcher's March" is especially similar to "Lark's March," but they have a little different feels. This setting played by the Corrs and Hayes sounds slightly more refined to my ears.
To add some more info, the Corrs play it as "Along with the Girls" after the song "Heaven Knows" in "Forgiven, not Forgotten." Their version is virtually identical to that of Martin Hayes, and that's why I thought this one is the standard.
Anyway, thanks Kenny for the information.
I just guess it's originally a pipe tune, is it correct? If not, it must sound nice on the pipes.
# Posted on April 9th 2003 by slainte
"The Butcher's March" ~ a shared gene pool?
Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on October 1st 2002 by gian marco.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1003
# Posted on December 8th 2005 by ceolachan
The "other" Lark's March - Five part version
Just curious... is the five-part version, mentioned by Kenny, posted anywhere on this site? Perhaps under a different name?
Mike Rafferty taught the first three parts of that tune -- he called it "Tom Broderick's Jig" -- at the Catskills in 2004. I've got the full notation of all five parts of that "Lark's March" in a recently compiled book of tunes played and taught by Mike Rafferty, but haven't seen it posted here.
# Posted on June 14th 2006 by browndog
"The Lark's March" ~ 5-parter, Boys of the Lough
Submitted on June 16th 2006 by Kenny.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5867
# Posted on June 16th 2006 by ceolachan
I agree with Kenny - I wouldn't have said that this tune is different enough from the Butcher's March to justify a separate entry.
# Posted on May 1st 2007 by Dow
Also it's in Ador.
# Posted on May 1st 2007 by Dow
I take back what I said the other day. I've been playing through them both a lot, and they are quite different.
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by Dow
looking for the abc of Along with the girls 2nd part.
Lark's March/ Along with the girls:
The Corrs plays an additional second part of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NTPaXEVlT4
I'm practicing this in the tin whistle,
Does anyone have the ABC's second part of it?
Found the first part right here but can't find it on other site
Thankx
redindy(^^,)
# Posted on January 13th 2008 by redindygo
Re: looking for the abc of Along with the girls 2nd part.
If you have a recording, why do you need the ABCs?
# Posted on January 13th 2008 by llig leahcim
Re: looking for the abc of Along with the girls 2nd part.
Maybe 'cos s/he is a beginner and wants to know how the tune goes - according to the dots?
D
# Posted on January 13th 2008 by Welshman
Yes I'm a beginner... still learning how to play the tin whistle.
# Posted on January 15th 2008 by redindygo