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Patsy Geary's

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on October 13th 2001 by Will Harmon.

This tune has been added to 176 tunebooks.

Also known as Micin Callaghan's, Mickey Callaghan's, Mickey O'Callaghan's, SWEET BIDDY DALY, The Yellow Rose Of Texas.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Patsy Geary's
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
AG|:F2 A AFA|B=cB A2 G|F2 A d2 e|~f3 fef|
|~g3 fgf|efe d2 B|1ABA AFD|~E3 EAG:|2 ABA efe|~d3 d2 e||
|:f2 e f2 e|f2 e fga|ABA BAF|ABA ABd|efe efe|
|efe dfa|baf afe|1 ~d3 d2 e:|2 ~d3 d2 A||

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Patsy Geary's sheetmusic
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Patsy Geary's

We had a request for this tune, so here 'tis.

I transcribed it in 6/8 as a single jig, though it certainly fits well into the long phrasing of a slide.

I knew this tune years ago but quit playing it because the second half didn't stir me at all. I recall doing turns on those fs in the first two bars of Part B, or playing them: |f2 e ~f3|fge fga| and also |f2 e def|fge fga|.

# Posted on October 13th 2001 by Will Harmon

Patsy geary

this is the yellow rose of texas the late lamented micho russel played to me 10 years ago

# Posted on January 30th 2003 by cruiser

Other takes on it - - -

Mickey Callaghan's / Patsy Geary's / etc... - entered as a slide
January 1, 2004 by 'gian marco'
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2328

Patsy Geary's - as a jig
February 11th, 2005 - ABCs courtesy of 'tina'
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display.php/631/comments

# Posted on February 12th 2005 by ceolachan

Patsy Geary's - The Yellow Rose of Texas?!?

Well how about that? I just learned this one via osmosis, too much listening to The Bothy Band. I hope on here just out of curiosity, and...The Yellow Rose of Texas, what a riot.

Fits perfectly too on the A part:

"There's a yellow rose in Texas, that I am going down to see,
No other fellow loves her, as half as much as me.
She cried so when I left her, it nearly broke my heart
And if I ever find her, we never more will part."

# Posted on August 7th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler

Hey, you're in Florida, and, I take it, in the deep, deep South ~ Texas is a completely other state of mind. ;-)

# Posted on August 7th 2008 by ceolachan

Mick O'Briens Version

X: 1
T: Patsy Geary’s
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:AB2 BcA |BGE G2D | GAG GBd | ecA ABc |
ABB BcA |BGE G2A | Bcd ecA |GED D(3EFG||
|:A3 ABA | GED D3 | E^DE EcA | GED DEG |
A3 ABA | GED D3 | Bcd ecA | GED D3 ||

# Posted on April 26th 2010 by JACKB

A variation

Thought I'd post it as it's nice on the final time through the A part.

FAA dAA|FAA BAG|FGA def|~f3 fef|gAA fAA|eAA dBA|ABd f2e|~d3 d2 e

# Posted on April 11th 2012 by wheresrhys

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