Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on June 9th 2003 by Will CPT.
This tune has been added to 35 tunebooks.
Also known as Croghan Hill, Nugent's, Speed The Plough.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Off In The Morning
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|~G3B dB (3BBB|gBfB eBdB|cBAc BAGB|Add^c d=cBA|
|~G3B dB (3BBB|gBfB eBdB|c2 (3ABc BAGB|1 ADFA G2 (3DEF:|2 ADFA GABd||
|:~g3f gdBd|gBfB eBdB|cBAc BAGB|Add^c defa|
|~g3f gdBd|gBfB eBdB|cBAc BAGB|1 ADFA GABd:|2 ADFA G2 (3DEF||
Off in the Morning
This is one of the reels in the Speed the Plough family, and also goes by that name though it is quite different from the first Speed the Plough I learned.
I didn't mean to fulfill my own request--sorry Jeremy, I hit that link by accident. Your new search menu for tune titles threw me for a loop. I guess I was a bit "off" in the evening.
This one goes well after the Wise Maid or Bantry Lasses.
# Posted on June 9th 2003 by Will CPT
This was among the first tunes I learnt. I was introduced to it as 'Croghan Hill'. Cathal McConnel recorded it ('On Lough Erne's Shore') as Nugent's Reel - I think, taken from Laurence Nugent.
The other Speed the Plough that Will mentions appears to be related only by marriage - I have studied the two tunes under an electron microscope and found no genetic similarities.
# Posted on June 12th 2003 by granama
There are many similarities in the two tunes:
They are both reels
They are both Irish
They are both tunes
They are both a sequence of notes
They both have a beginning and end
and so on...
# Posted on June 12th 2003 by gian marco
The nugents
David - I think it was Larry Nugent's father Sean (?) Nugent Cathal credited this tune to. I doubt that Larry was born when Cathal recorded his 1st LP ( or he might have been just walking, in which case, he was probably playing already !).
# Posted on June 13th 2003 by Kenny
Off In The Morning
What a coincidence to see this here. I just started learning this tune on the whistle from an old 1974 Ceoltóirí Phort-an-Dúnáin Handbook acquired for fifty cents from a library sale.
The version I've learned says it was arranged for tenor banjo. Next time I see you at a session, Will, I'll play it for you or I may scan the notation and email.
# Posted on June 13th 2003 by aliceflynn
Speed The Plough
Sorry, the Irish should have left this one alone. The original Scottish setting in A @ http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1191 is much nicer I think, but that's just my personal opinion...
# Posted on June 14th 2003 by Dow
Off In The Morning
Actually no, I take that back - it's grown on me!
# Posted on June 30th 2003 by Dow
Variation
Will, I find that that gBfB eBdB riff starts to get a bit repetitive after a while, and have found that it alternates nicely with (3gag fg egdB.
# Posted on September 27th 2003 by Dow
...or (3gfg bg egdB.
# Posted on September 27th 2003 by Dow
My version
So how about this for a version that avoids too much repetition:
K: Gmaj
zD|GzGB dB~B2|gBfB eBdB|cBAc BAG2|Add^c decA|
GDGB dB~B2|(3gag fg egdB|cBAc BAGB|ADFA G2:|
|:Bd|gzgf gdBd|(3gag fg egdB|cBAc BAG2|Add^c defa|
fggf gdBd|(3gfg bg egdB|cBAc BAGB|ADFA G2:|
# Posted on September 27th 2003 by Dow
More variations
Or you could also alter the last 2 bars of each part to |~c2ec BcdB|ADFA G2|| or |cdec BzdB|ADFA G2||
# Posted on September 27th 2003 by Dow
Or even better to my ear |cdec BdGB|
K: Gmaj
zD|GzGB dB~B2|gBfB eBdB|cBAc BAG2|Add^c decA|
GDGB dB~B2|(3gag fg egdB|cdec BdGB|ADFA G2:|
|:Bd|gzgf gdBd|(3gag fg egdB|cBAc BAG2|Add^c defa|
fggf gdBd|(3gfg bg egdB|cdec BdGB|ADFA G2:|
# Posted on September 27th 2003 by Dow
Goes nicely after The Silver Spire.
# Posted on September 27th 2003 by Dow
Idea for a set
Ooh yum, I've just discovered it goes well before Palmer's Gate (Emin version) as well, so you get:
The Silver Spire/Croghan Hill/Palmer's Gate
# Posted on September 27th 2003 by Dow
It's very similiar to Peter Street except in a different key.
# Posted on July 20th 2006 by PaddyCmusic