Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on May 12th 2004 by gian marco.
This tune has been added to 33 tunebooks.
Also known as If There Were No Men, If There Weren't Any Men, If There Weren't Any Men In The World, Pearl O'Shaughnessy's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Hills Of Tara, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
Bc|d2 G2 GB AB|c2 E2 E2 AG|FGAB cBcd|e2 d2 B3c|
d2 G2 GB AB|c2 E2 E2 AG|FGAB cADF|A2 G2 G2 :|
|:Bd|g4 f3d|efed A2 AG|FGAB cBcd|e2 d2 B3d|
g4 f3d|efed A2 AG|FGAB cADF|A2 G2 G2 :|
The Hills Of Tara (barndance)
Source: Hammy Hamilton, Séamus Creagh, Con Ó Drisceoil - "It's No Secret"
Transcription: gmp
# Posted on May 12th 2004 by gian marco
Thanks Gian, another great little tune - I don't know why but most barn dances always seem to have good melody lines.
# Posted on May 12th 2004 by Bannerman
The Hills Of Tara (barndance)
there is a little mistake in the 2nd and 6th bar of the B part. (sorry)
This is the correct version:
Bc|d2 G2 GB AB|c2 E2 E2 AG|FGAB cBcd|e2 d2 B3c|
d2 G2 GB AB|c2 E2 E2 AG|FGAB cADF|A2 G2 G2 :|
|:Bd|g4 f3d|efed A2 AG|FGAB cBcd|e2 d2 B3d|
g4 f3d|efed A2 AG|FGAB cADF|A2 G2 G2 :|
# Posted on May 12th 2004 by gian marco
The Hills Of Tara (barndance)
mmmmm....I prefer the "wrong" version...
# Posted on May 12th 2004 by gian marco
Reminds me of......
one by Ed Reavy, "The Dances at Kinvarra"
# Posted on May 12th 2004 by snorre
The Hills of Tara
What, no sound file??? No midi??? I'm terrible at notes, need to hear it, and by following
the tune along w/ the notation, it will help this "newbie" to learn how to read.
# Posted on May 15th 2004 by katwoman
The Hills of Tara
This tune is also on Eoghan O'Sullivan, Gerry Harrington, and Paul De Grae's trio album "The Smoky Chimney." They call it Pearl O'Shaughnessy's. I think she's a Scottish-born fiddler and Paul O'Shaughnessy's mother.
# Posted on January 4th 2005 by slainte
Another Pearl Shaughnessy's Barndance
I have just posted another tune called Pearl Shaughnessy's Barndance - it is slightly similar ti this one but my version has four parts and is in D, and I think it is a completely different tune. I heard it on a Paul McGratten and Paul Shaughnessy album, (album title I just can't remember), but do remember reading that Paul Shaughnessy got the tune from his mother Pearl. I first learnt it as Con Cassidy's Barndance many moons ago, and got it from my late friend Simon Knight, accordion player, from Wells, Somerset.
# Posted on March 17th 2005 by *Davy Rogers
The notes of O'Sullivan, Harrington, and De Grae's trio recording "The Smoky Chimney" say the four-part version of the tune is often played as two separate barndances in Donegal.
# Posted on March 17th 2005 by slainte
"If There Weren't Any Women In The World" ~ barndances often swung as a set
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on January 26th 2003 by glauber.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1376
# Posted on July 29th 2006 by ceolachan