Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on June 1st 2003 by Tommy McCarty.
This tune has been added to 25 tunebooks.
Also known as Denis Doody's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Where Lilies Bloom
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
|GB/d/ ed|g2 g>f|ed ef|ed Bd|
GB/d/ ed|g2 g>f|ed ef|1ag g2:|2ag ga||
|bc'/b/ ab/a/|g2 g>f|ed ef|ed Bd|
bc'/b/ ab/a/|g2 g>f|ed ef|1ag ga:|2ag g2||
Where Lilies Bloom
This tune, as with most of my other transcriptions, came from the playing of The Chieftains (if you haven't noticed, I'm something of a Chieftains fan). "Where Lilies Bloom" was featured as the first tune in a medley by the name of "O! The Breeches Full of Stitches" on The Chieftains 7. I didn't know the name immediately and was considering sending it in as Gan Ainm, but I checked the website irishtune.info and found that it was known as the title I have submitted it under.
As for the tune itself, I think that it sounds best played rather quickly. I play it in a set, derived from the afore-mentioned Chieftains album, with the polkas "The Breeches Full of Stitches" and "Up and Away". Both are already listed in The Session's archives. For ornamentation, you can roll the second-octave "e" notes at the beginning of several of the measures as well as the "a" notes in the same octave at the end of each part, both times around. There's probably more one can do with the tune, so if I recall any further substantial ornamentation, I'll mention it in a later comment.
# Posted on June 1st 2003 by Tommy McCarty