Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on June 24th 2004 by Kenny.
This tune has been added to 22 tunebooks.
Also known as Garry Hastings', Gary Hasting's, Jim Erwin's, McKeigue's, Merry Days Of Easter.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Merry Days Of Easter, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
BG G2 DG G2 | Bdgd cA A2 | BG G2 DGBG | Bdgd BGGA |
B2 BG c2 BA | Bdgd cA A2 | BG G2 DG G2 | Bdgd Bdga |
bgaf g2 ag | eaag ea a2 | bgaf gfed | Bdef g2 ga |
bgaf gefd | eaag eaab | c'2 ba agfd | g2 gf gedc |
Gary Hastings'
From Harry Bradley's 1st recording - a great flute tune, which he got from Gary Hastings, another Belfast player. According to the sleeve notes, Gary associated the reel with the late Peg McGrath, so it's flute-players all round. [And it's got a high "c".]
# Posted on June 24th 2004 by Kenny
The following setting comes from Micheal O Raghallaigh's 'The Nervous Man', bearing the title, The Merry Days of Easter. A setting by this name appears in O'Neill's, but is somewhat less reminiscent of the tune poseted here by Kenny.
M:4/4
K:G
BG~G2 cBAc | BdGB c2cA | BG~G2 DGcA | Bdgd BGGA | B3d c3A | Bdgd cA~A2 |
BG~G2 DGGA | Bdgd Bdga ||
bgaf (3ggg fg | (3eee ag a2ac' | bgaf gfed | (3Bcd ef g3a | ~b2ab g2fg |
~e2ag a2ab | c'eac' bgef | gbaf gedc ||
# Posted on June 27th 2004 by granama
Aka Jim Erwin's
Fiddler Gerry O'Connor calls this Jim Erwin's, and says it's also known as Mick McKeigue's from the playing of P.J. Hernon. On Gerry's Journeyman cd, it goes as follows:
X: 1
T: Jim Erwin's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
c|B~G3 DEGA|Bdgd cAAc|B~G3 DEGA|Bdgd BGGA|
~B3d ~c3A|Bdgd cAAc|B~G3 DEGA|Bdgd BGG2 ||
bgaf ~g4|e~a3 eaga|bgaf gfed|^cde=c B/c/d ga|
bgaf gbfg|ea a/a/a eaab|{c'}babe agef|gbag {a}gedc||
[B3D3] G DEGA|....
# Posted on April 25th 2005 by Will CPT