The Dairy Maid

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on September 4th 2003 by Kurt Franke.

This tune has been added to 59 tunebooks.

Also known as The Dairy Maid's, The Dairymaid, Kiss The Bride In Bed.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• 40th Anniversary 1946 - 1986 by The Tulla Ceili Band
• After The Break by Planxty
• Best Of Irish Traditional Music by Sean McGuire And Roger Sherlock
• Cherish The Ladies by Peg McGrath, Kathleen Smyth, Mary Mulholland
• Classic Recordings Of The Irish Fiddle Legend by Paddy Reynolds
• Deora An Deorai [ The Emigrant Suite ] by Charlie Lennon
• Fifty-Odd Years by Jimmy Power
• First Through The Gate by Brian Conway
• From Leitrim To London by Brian Rooney
• Geantrai - Live Session Recordings From The TV Series by Various Artists
• Irish Traditional Music by Jim McKillop
• Live In Lisdoonvarna by The Kilfenora Ceili Band
• Many's A Wild Night - Domhnach Is Dalach by Jackie Daly
• Memories Of Sligo by Roger Sherlock
• Music From Sliabh Luachra by Denis Murphy
• One's Own Place by Kevin Henry
• Past Masters Of Irish Fiddle Music by Various Artists
• Set Dances Of Ireland, Volume IV by Various Artists
• Suantrai by John Canny, Kevin Carey And Terence O'Reilly
• The Blue CD by Irish Session Tunes
• The Coleman Archive Vol. 2: The Home Place by Various Artists
• The Flax In Bloom by Brendan Mulvihill
• The Funny Reel by Joe Burke, Andy McGann And Felix Dolan
• The High Part Of The Road by Tommy Peoples And Paul Brady
• The Irish Concertina Two by Noel Hill
• The Professor by James Morrison
• The Schoolmaster's House by Mike McHale
• The Sound Of Coleman Country by Various Artists
• The Very Best Of Sean McGuire by Sean Maguire
• Time On Our Hands by SiobhᮠPeoples And Murty Ryan
• To Hell With The Begrudgers by Seamus Tansey And Jim McKillop
• Touch Me If You Dare by Ronan Browne And Peter O'Loughlin
• Traditional Irish Tunes Played On The Tin Whistle (1/2) by Geraldine Cotter
• Within A Mile Of Kilty by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Dairy Maid, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
AF ~F2 DFBF|AFDE FE ~E2|AF ~F2 BFAF|E2 DE FD D2|
AF ~F2 DFBF|AFDE FEEF |G2 BG F2 AF|E2 DE FD D2||
d3 f a3 g | fgef dB ~B2|dfaf ~g2 ag| faeg fd d2|
dfaf ~g2 ag| fgef dB ~B2| dfaf g2 ag|faeg fd d2||

already posted?

# Posted on September 4th 2003 by Kurt Franke

The Dairy Maid

This is the setting I play. It's based on Planxty's version because that's where I first heard it, but I've messed around with the 2nd half of the second part a bit. I like to make it move around the octave a bit more, outlining the chords of Bm and G more obviously through the melody:

AF~F2 AFBF|AFDE FE~E2|AF~F2 BFAF|EADE FDD2|
AF~F2 AFBF|AFDE FEEF|~G3E F2AF|EADE FDD2||
~d3f ~a3g|f2ef dB~B2|dcdf a2fa|bgeg fddA|
dfaf g2ag|f2eg fBBA|GBdf gbag|faeg fedB||

# Posted on September 16th 2003 by Dow

X: 1
T: Dairy Maid, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
D: First Through the Gate, Brian Conway
K: D
dB|A~F3 D2 dB|AFDE FEEB|A~F3 dBAF|(3EFE DE FDDB|
A~F3 DFBF|AFDE FEEF|[A3F3]d BdAF|(3EFE DE FD D2||
dcdf abag|fgeg fdBc|dcdf adfa|bgeg fd{e}dc|
dfaf g2 ag|fgeg fdBc|defg a^gab|afeg fd d2||

# Posted on January 4th 2006 by Will CPT

Oops--hit post before I was done.

The last bar of the B part should be: |afeg fedB||

# Posted on January 4th 2006 by Will CPT

According to the liner notes of Time on our Hands, this was played by Coleman and he knew it as "Kiss the Bride in Bed"; he had to tone the title down after having offended the sensibilities of radio listeners!

# Posted on January 27th 2006 by Conán McDonnell

Planxty After the Break version

X: 1
T: Dairy Maid, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
D: Planxty, After the Break
K: D
B|AF~F2 AFBF|AFDE FE~E2|AF~F2 BFAF|EADE FDD2|
AF~F2 AFBF|AFDE FEEF|~G3E F2AF|EADE FDD||
A|~d3f ~a3g|f2ef dBBA|dcdf a2fa|bgeg fddA|
dfaf g2ag|f2eg fBBA|dcdf g2ag|f2eg fdd||

# Posted on June 4th 2006 by rgriffiths