Up And About In The Morning

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on June 11th 2004 by Kenny.

This tune has been added to 42 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Contentment Is Wealth by Matt Molloy And Sean Keane
• Do You Know Eddy Kelly? by Elandir
• In Concert by Gerry O'Connor And Gilles Le Bigot
• Journeyman by Gerry O'Connor
• Seanchairde by Dermy Diamond, Tara Diamond, Dáithí Sproule
• The Bunch Of Keys by Jason O'Rourke
• The Rowsome Tradition: Five Generations Of Uileann Piping by Kevin Rowsome
• With Every Breath by John Wynne

X: 1
T: Up And About In The Morning
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
A3 DED | ABG A2 d | cAG EFG | FAD EFG |
A3 DED | ABG A2 d | cAG EFG | FAD D3 :|
d2 e fef | ege dcA | A3 EFG | FAD EFA |
d2 e fef | ege dcA | A3 EFG | FAD D3:|
d3 dcA | ded dcA | ABA AGE | ABA ABc |
d2 e f3 | ege dcA | A3 EFG | FAD D3:|

Up And About......

From a Belfast musicians' session at the Willie Clancy Week, around 1986.

# Posted on June 11th 2004 by Kenny

Key Sig

I just had a look at another source of this tune - JC's tunefinder:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/gettune?F=GIF&U=http://www2.redhawk.org/irish/Norbeck/hnj1.abc&X=162&T=UPANDABOUTINTHEMORNING&N=UpandaboutintheMorning.gif
Dont know if that long url will work but if not my question is whether there should really be some C naturals in there as opposed to be just a straight D major with 2# in the signature. The above version has only one # and then puts in the odd accidental sharp where appropriate.
I dont have the relevant CD's to hand but I would like to hear from someone who has heard a few versions of this.

# Posted on June 13th 2004 by Donough

I just was given this tune fairly recently. The way I transcribed it, turned out in Dmix. The actual sharp c's in the third part only,
(ded dcA|ded dcA|ABA AGE|ABA AB^c|d), but actually I think I play my natural c's a bit sharp too (flute). Maybe if on guitar you would bend up the c's a bit.

# Posted on June 15th 2004 by LH

Nicolas Carolan said this was "...an annonymous tune from the Brendan Breathnach Collection". Lovely Jig though. Noel Shine plays it very well on the whistle.

# Posted on March 25th 2006 by 52Paddy

There's a nice setting of this tune on Charlie Piggot and Gerry Harrington's CD, "The New Road," but they call it "The Walls of Liscarroll." I hesitate to offer that as an alternative title here since it might just add to the confusion.

# Posted on March 30th 2007 by Phantom Button