Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on March 16th 2004 by carrie.
This tune has been added to 49 tunebooks.
Also known as 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 Will CPT
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