Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on March 16th 2004 by carrie.
This tune has been added to 62 tunebooks.
Also known as Geehan's, Paddy Fahey's, Paddy Fahey's No. 9, The Robin's Nest.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Paddy Fahy's
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Cmaj
c3 dcB|cGE CEG|F3 DEF|GAB ced|
c3 dcB|cGE CEG|F3 DGF|ECC C3 :|
|:c3 g^fg|ea^f gec|A2 f fef|Adf afd|
c3 g^fg| ea^f g2 a|gec fdB|cGE C3 :|
Unfortunately I dont have a name for this tune. I am looking for some suggestions for chords to accompany this tune and would love to hear your ideas. Thanks.
# Posted on March 16th 2004 by carrie
This is a Paddy Fahy tune... and it's called... Paddy Fahy's... of course.
# Posted on March 16th 2004 by Phantom Button
A great tune Carrie which is rarely heard at sessions but deserves to be heard a lot more. A couple of possible variations are suggested as follows:-
Bar 4 of first part could be played as "GAG E2 G"
Bar 8 of first part could also be played as "ECB, C3"
Bar 4 of second part could be played as "Acf afd"
# Posted on March 18th 2004 by Bannerman
Not the reel from Northern lights !
If you're here from the link "Paddy Fahy's" On "Northern Lights (Kevin ans Seamus Glackin)". The correct link is www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2940
# Posted on May 8th 2004 by Washoo
Here's another setting from fiddler Brid Dunne.
K:C
|:~c3 dcB|cGE CE/F/G|~F3 DEF|GAB ced|
|~c3 dcB|cGE CE/F/G|~F3 DGF|ECB, CE/F/G:||
|:~c3 ~g3|ea^f {a}gec|A2 f fef|Acf afd|
|~c3 ~g3|ea^f {a}g2 a|gec fdB|cGE CE/F/G:||
# Posted on November 5th 2004 by Miss Lonelyhearts
Another Name
This tune has also been recorded as the Robin's Nest. I have it on a CD by the box player Johnny Connolly who now lives in Portland ("Bridgetown"), but there are others.
# Posted on October 12th 2005 by boxplayer
"Paddy Fahy's" ~ "Northern Lights"
Source: Seamus & Kevin Glackin
Key signature: F Major
Submitted on May 4th 2004 by Washoo.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2940
# Posted on December 12th 2005 by ceolachan
See http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5776 for a transcription of Sean Ryan's "Robin's Nest" - a slightly different tune, especially in the B-part. I've never heard the Sean Ryan tune in any session I've been to, but I've heard this Paddy Fahy tune quite often.
# Posted on May 18th 2006 by Dow
Maybe this is Paddy Fahy's version of Sean Ryan's composition.
# Posted on May 18th 2006 by slainte
Or it could be the other way round. Think of Twilight In Portroe/Dawn, Bill McEvoy's #1/Nervous Man, and also similarities between tunes like Dash To Portobello and the Hunter's Purse.
# Posted on May 18th 2006 by Dow
Played by Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill on the Feakle Festival CD: http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2863
# Posted on August 15th 2008 by GaryAMartin
Also played by Seamus Bugler on track 12 of http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2183
# Posted on August 15th 2008 by GaryAMartin