The Return To Miltown

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on June 25th 2004 by Kenny.

This tune has been added to 47 tunebooks.

Also known as The Ferry Banks, The Glorious Farewell To Milltown, The Glorious Return To Milltown, The Glorious Return To Miltown, Return To Milltown, The Return To Milltown, Return To Miltown.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Call Of The Wild by Wild Asparagus
• Fonnchaoi by Verena Commins And Julie Langan
• Footprints by No I.D.
• Gander In The Pratie Hole by Carlos Plumley And Mike Herr
• Green Fields Of America Live In Concert by Green Fields Of America
• High Clouds by Greenfield Dance Band
• Last Night's Fun by Last Night's Fun
• Letting Go... by Katherine Irwin Thomas
• Partners In Crime by Ross Ainslie And Jarlath Henderson
• Time Of Change by The Boys In The Gap
• Tony McManus by Tony McManus

X: 1
T: Return To Miltown, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
D2 FD ADFD | =CE E2 CEGE | D2 FD ADFD | =CDEG =cGE=C |
D2 FD ADFD | =CE E2 CEGE | =F3 D E3 D |1 =CDEG =cGE=C :|2 =CDEG =cGEG ||
d3 e f2 ed | cdef g2 fe | dcde f2 ed | cAGE ED D2 |
d3 e f2 ed | cdef g3 e | f2 fd efed | cAGE ED D2:|

Return To Miltown

There are more than one in Ireland, but only the one that counts musically as far as I know. See you there. This reel is from Donegal.

# Posted on June 25th 2004 by Kenny

I know this tune with F-naturals in the A-part and F#s in the B-part (Kenny - as a flute player, you have probably selectively learned the all-F# version). The following setting comes from Henrik Norbeck, and is more-or-less the one most familiar to me.

T:Return to Milltown
M:4/4
K:Ddor
D2AD EDDB,|C2EC FCEC|D2AD EDDB,|CDEG AEGE|
D2AD EDDB,|C2EC FCEC|F2FD E2ED|CDEG AEGE:|
K:Dmix
|:d2de f2ed|(3B^cd ef gfge|d2de f2ed|=cAGE EDD2|
d2de f2ed|(3B^cd ef gfge|fafd eged|=cAGE
EDD2:|

The following is a very closely related tune, The Ferry Banks. This setting comes from Richard Robinson's Tunebook.

T: The Ferry Banks
M:4/4
K:DDor
D2AD EDAD | CE2D CEGE | D2AD EDAD |CDEG cGEC |\
D2AD EDAD | CE2D CEGE |
F3D E3D |1 CDEG cGEC:|2\
CDEG cGED |: \
K:D
d3e f2ed | cdef g2fe |
dcde f2ed | =cAGE EDD2 |\
d3e f2ed | cdef g3e | =f2fd efed| =cAGE EDD2:|

# Posted on June 28th 2004 by OrganicPeatCreature

I learnt this tune in Siobhan Peoples's and Paul Bradley's class at the Willie Clancy week - but we learnt it with the parts the other way round - the second part first and vice versa. Also, we learnt it that, in the part which you have first, the F's are naturals, making that part in D minor - the other part was still in D major though.

# Posted on July 14th 2004 by tbag

Just been messing round with David's version of this and come up with some ideas:

T:Return to Miltown
M:4/4
K:Ddor
D2AD EDDB,|C2EC FCEC|D2AD EDDB,|CDEG AEGE|
D2AD EDDB,|C2EC FCEC|FAFD EzED|CDEG AEGE:|
K:Dmaj
|:GAde f2ed|cdef (3gag fe|dDGA f2ed|=cAGE ED~D2|
GAde f2ed|cdef (3gag fe|fafd ezed|=cAGE
ED~D2:|

# Posted on June 10th 2005 by Dow

Go here for a tune with a similar B-part that appears in O'Neill's http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/680.

# Posted on June 25th 2008 by Dow

Return to Milltown

Here's a great version suitable for Scottish pipes by Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson

X: 1
T: Return To Miltown, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
|: ~A2 BA ~A2 BA | G2 BG cABG |~ A2 BA ~A2 BA | GA B/^c/d gedB |
~A2 A/A/A AcBA | G2 BG cABG | c2 cA B2 BA | GA B/^c/d gedB :|
|: eaae ^c2 BA | BAB^c d2 cd | eaae ^c2 BA | Beed BA B/^c/d |
eaae ^c2 BA | BAB^c d2 ed | c2 cA B2 BA | GA B/^c/d gedB :|

# Posted on August 5th 2009 by bogman