The Road To Garrison

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on March 21st 2004 by Phantom Button.

This tune has been added to 65 tunebooks.

Also known as The Godfather, James Cullinane's, Road To Garrison, Tony Cullinane's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Dearga by Matt And Shannon Heaton
• Foinn Seisiun 3 by Ennis/Dublin Session Group
• I Will If I Can by John Carty
• Over The Edge by Moher
• Pride Of New York by Joanie Madden, Brian Conway, Billy McComiskey And Brendan Dolan
• Sets In The City by Tipsy House
• The Godfather by Brian Rooney
• The Leitrim Equation by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Road To Garrison, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:A3B ADFA | BFAF EGFE | DA,~A,2 DFAF | GBAG FD~D2 |
A3B ADFA | BFAF EGFE | DB,~B,2 A,2 dB | AFEG FD~D2 :|
|:d3f af~f2 | afbf afef | ~d2fd Adfa | bfaf ~e3 z |
fa~a2 afdf | gfeg fedB | ABde fdAF | GFEG FD~D2 :|

Godfather

I got this tune from the Moher recording, "Over the Edge."

# Posted on March 21st 2004 by Phantom Button

Godfather on "Moher" ??/ Warning !

I'm looking at Moher's CD right now, Jack , and I don't see any tune they call the "Godfather" listed. Any explanation ?
I don't know if this is the tune or not , but I heard a story about a reel called "The Godfather" about a year ago. Charlie Lennon had composed a tune , and someone had picked it up, and no doubt it had been passed around. Somewhere along the line someone gave it the name "The Godfather" , but when Charlie heard about this he was not too well pleased, as someone had given one of his tunes a name without his approval. Look over your shoulder before you call this "The Godfather", ( assuming this is the same reel.)

# Posted on March 22nd 2004 by Kenny

James Cullinane's

oops... It's the first tune on the last track. I found out later that it's also known as "The Godfather." If it's the same tune you're talking about... urm... sorry Charlie. The liner notes say the tune is associated with fiddler, James Cullinane, but I also read somewhere that Maurice Lennon penned it. It gets murkier and murkier.

# Posted on March 22nd 2004 by Phantom Button

Godfather

Could well have been Maurice - I'm not 100% certain about it being one of Charlie's tunes, but my memory is that I was told it was Charlie. Maybe someone else can help. Thanks , Jack.

# Posted on March 22nd 2004 by Kenny

The Road to Garrison

This was composed by Maurice Lennon, whose name (If I recall correctly what he said at a NYC concert a year or so ago) was "The Road to Garrison," Garrison being a town on the Fermanagh/Leitrim border near the Lennon home in Kiltyclogher. It acquired the "Godfather" name via Kiltyclogher fiddler Brian Rooney, who made it the title track of his first solo CD a few years ago.

# Posted on March 27th 2004 by blarneystar

Maurice Lennon

Straight from the horse's mouth, I got this email from Maurice Lennon:

"Dear Jeremy,just a quick word a.to say how much I like the site and b.to let you know that the title tune of fiddler Brian Rooneys album The Godfather is in fact a tune of mine, written over 15years ago. It is not called The Godfather but is called The Road To Garrison,a small village in Co.Fermanagh,less than a mile from my home.It was Noel Hill the concertina player who first alerted me to the ERROR! It's the same tune that some called Tony Cullinans after it first appeared on Kevin Crawfords album.Sincerly Yours,Maurice Lennon"

So there you: it's officially The Road To Garrison.

# Posted on May 1st 2006 by Jeremy

Apology

Sorry, Maurice - thanks for setting the record straight.

# Posted on May 1st 2006 by Kenny

The Road To Garrison

Another great Maurice Lennon composed tune! Heard it for the first time when Maurice played it in session at the Armada Hotel last night in Miltown Malbay. He started with "Stone of Destiny", also one of his own compositions, which most of us knew but he was on his own for this one. Thanks to the Yellowboard we now have both tunes.

# Posted on July 14th 2007 by Bannerman

Wrong Road to Garrison?

On Kevin Crawford's "D Flute" tracks listed here, it's called Maurice Lemmon's–a fellow I never heard of! ..mm...
Thanks to this discussion I was able to track this one down as Road to Garrison by Maurice Lennon.

# Posted on January 17th 2008 by jimmydearing

This tune is already a classic and thanks to Maurice it will be played long into the future - but it will be interesting to see if his original name for it will endure. For some reason The Godfather seems a more memorable name for the tune. Names are just names, but the music will live on

# Posted on March 25th 2008 by dogbox